Walker Evans, a literate New Yorker known for his Depression-era photographs of hard-bitten characters in the American South, is coming South again. One of the greatest documentary photographers of ...

The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans and the horror intrinsic to the American landscape. By Yaniya Lee This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova ...

PORTLAND, Maine — I can’t help but think something strange has happened, and nothing good, when the pictures of Walker Evans offer something like comfort. When I arrived at the Portland Museum of Art ...

Walker Evans is one of the most vaunted American photographers in history. His name is evoked with reverence; his influence continues to shine through in work by contemporary photographers to this day ...

“Evans is at the top of the mountain with black-and-white photography. He’s unparalleled,” Ferris tells SF Weekly in a phone interview from North Carolina. “There are more and more photographers, ...

Walker Evans (1903-1975) was born in St. Louis. His father was an advertising copywriter and the family moved to Chicago and Toledo, Ohio, before his parents separated in 1918. Evans went with his ...

Corrugated Tin Facade / Tin Building, Moundville, Alabama, Walker Evans, 1936. (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In Starting From Scratch, art historian Svetlana ...

Shore’s new book, “Early Work,” hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes. By Arthur Lubow The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans ...