Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903-1975) was an American photographer. He was hired in 1935 by Farm Security Administration to record the great Depression. The pictures taken showed the excruciating poverty during that time; those pictures are the ones he is most known for. He worked in black and white and only wished to record life as it was, trying to make very picture as objective as possible but always delivering a message. His camera was very big (an 8x 10 view camera), therefore his photos are well-thought and carefully done. Composition wise, he mostly put his subject in the center.


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