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==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
* Caroline Blinder (ed.), ''Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans: Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'', 2010 | * Caroline Blinder (ed.), ''Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans: Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'', 2010 | ||
| + | * Virginia-Lee Webb, ''Perfect Documents-Walker Evans and African Art, 1935'', MoMa, 2000 | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
Revision as of 14:10, 8 January 2014
 Walker Evans photographed by Janice Lewitt, 1938-40. | |
| Born |
November 3, 1903 St. Louis, Missouri, US |
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| Died |
April 10, 1975 (aged 71) New Haven, Connecticut, US |
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. In 1941, Evans's photographs and James Agee's text detailing the duo's stay with three white tenant families in southern Alabama during the Great Depression were published as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Literature
- Caroline Blinder (ed.), Critical Essays on James Agee and Walker Evans: Perspectives on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 2010
- Virginia-Lee Webb, Perfect Documents-Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, MoMa, 2000
