Walker Evans
Born 3 November 1903; died 10 April 1975. In 1928 Evans worked as a freelance photographer in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City, New York. In 1930 Evans undertook a project to photograph popular housing and Victorian architecture in New England. In 1935 Evans travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana to photograph southern plantation architecture. From 1935 to 1937 Evans worked as a staff photographer for the Farm Security Administration. In 1935 he documented the coal mines and industrial towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia as well as the effects of flooding in Arkansas and Tennessee in 1936-1937. In 1937 Evans undertook a project with James Agee to photograph the lives of tenent farm families in Hale County, Alabama. The project was turned into a book entitled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". In 1943 Evans joined the staff of Time Magazine. From 1945 to 1965 Evans acted as editor and photographer for Fortune Magazine. During the 1950s Evans began to focus on American industrial landscapes. American photographer. ULAN
