Walker Evans

Walker Evans (1903–1975) is undisputedly one of the most influential American photographers ever. His work altered the consciousness of his country, and many of his images are fixed in collective American memory. His uncompromising documentation of poverty during the Great Depression has become an iconic part of the history of photography, yet his equally innovative works produced in the ensuing decades have met with less acclaim. His works are at once clear and ambiguous, and thus they are able to convey the inextricable contradictions of modern life, the search for truth and the longing for poetry.