Walker Evans

A major reassessment of Walker Evans that shows him as a photographer both of his time and very much ahead of it.

Walker Evans (1903–1975) is one of the great enduring figures of modern photography. His vivid images are inseparable from the history of the medium and the history of the United States. The subject matter is quintessentially American—representative of small-town life and featuring typical buildings, commercial signs, and anonymous citizens—but Evans brought to them the curiosit...