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Evans' 1936 photo of then-27-year-old Allie Mae Burroughs, a symbol of the Great Depression Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama, photographed by Evans Evans' March 1936 photo, Frame house. Charleston, South Carolina. Walker Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Jessie (née Crane) and Walker Evans. [3] His father was an advertising director.
Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, summer 1936. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression.
Michael Evans (photographer) Walker Evans; J. R. Eyerman; F. American photojournalist Donna Ferrato (right) and friends documenting Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks were three of the most famous FSA alumni. [12] The FSA was also cited in Gordon Parks' autobiographical novel, A Choice of Weapons. The FSA's photography was one of the first large-scale visual documentations of the lives of African-Americans. [13]
Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943) Jason Evans (born 1968) John Everard (1900–?) Robert Fairer (born 1966) Candice Farmer (born 1970) Roger Fenton (1819–1869) Graham Finlayson (1932–1999) Anna Fox (born 1961) Armet Francis (born 1945) Stuart Franklin (born 1956) Peter Fraser (born 1953) John French (1907–1966) Francis Frith (1822–1898 ...
In the summer of 1936, Agee spent eight weeks on assignment for Fortune with photographer Walker Evans, living among sharecroppers in Alabama. Fortune did not publish his article, but Agee turned the material into his 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. [6] It sold only 600 copies before being remaindered.
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Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. Some of her work consists of exact photographic reproductions of the work of other photographers such as Walker Evans, Eliot Porter and Edward Weston.