Walker Evans

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Walker Evans was a prominent American photographer renowned for his stark, influential images of everyday life during the Great Depression.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photographer
human
photographer
photojournalist
street photographer
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1903-11-03
dateOfDeath 1975-04-10
educatedAt Phillips Academy Andover
Williams College
employer Farm Security Administration
Fortune magazine
Yale University
familyName Evans
fieldOfWork photo-essay
social documentary
genre architectural photography
documentary photography
portrait photography
street photography
givenName Walker
hasWorkInCollection J. Paul Getty Museum
Library of Congress
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
influenced Diane Arbus
Lee Friedlander
Robert Frank
Stephen Shore
influencedBy Eugène Atget
European modernist photography
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement American modernism
documentary photography
notableFor FSA documentation of rural poverty
photographs of the Great Depression
stark images of everyday American life
notableWork American Photographs
FSA sharecropper portraits
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Subway Portraits
photographs for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with James Agee
occupation photographer
writer
placeOfBirth St. Louis, Missouri, United States
placeOfDeath New Haven, Connecticut, United States
positionHeld professor of photography at Yale University
sexOrGender male
spouse Jane Ninas Evans


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