walker evans

One of America’s greatest and most influential photographers, Walker Evans is credited with creating a vision of life in the 1930’s as Americans would wish to see themselves: dignified and indomitable, even in the face of poverty and despair. He was a documentary photography pioneer whose portraits of “the common man” have earned him comparison with another American artist, Walt Whitman, Yet Evans might well have died in obscurity if not for a collaboration …

…from all the eras that Evans was associated with. (http://photography.miningco.com) The final years of Walker Evans’ life were spent at Yale School of Art and Architecture. He worked there as a teacher for the last ten years of his life. His students and co-workers looked up to him. Listening very intently to his words and his works of art, his photographs, as they should. Mr. Evans died in New Haven, Connecticut in 1975.