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The objective of this project is to show how Walker Evans' photographs taken in the 1930's, portraying a realistic view of the poverty-stricken rural south, revolutionized the standards of documentary photography.

Walker Evans had a reputation, if not a steady income, as a photographer when Roy Stryker hired him at the Resettlement Administration in October 1935. Evans had taken up photography in 1928, at the age of twenty-five. He lived, in his own words, "very shabbily" in New York City, where he began to experiment with the medium by photographing city street life and vernacular architecture and by making portraits of his artist and intellectual friends

Two Walker Evans exhibitions at the Getty Museum explore the work of the American photographer and his influence on other artists.

Walker Evans. The American photographer. Exhibition and catalogue. Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Walker Evans is best known for his collaborative work with author James Agee, Now Let Us Praise Famous Men, a series of photographs of Depression-era Appalachian sharecropping families. The power of his work lies in his calculated efforts to appear uncalculated. Evans was dedicated to using the camera to photograph things as they really were; convinced that the details of the image would speak more eloquently than any contrived artistic statement could. At the same time, he would often spend hours or even d