Walker Evans was such an influential 20th-century American photographer — and writer, editor and teacher — that when a wide range of his images is displayed, it’s as if we’ve seen them before. For one ...

Walker Evans, “Subway Portrait” (1941); Gelatin silver print, 5 × 7 5/8 in.; (© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Walker Evans, “Brooklyn Bridge” (1929) (© Walker Evans Archive, ...

Roadside shacks, garbage, circus wagons, subway riders and other ordinary folk: All were favorite subjects of Walker Evans, one of the 20th century's pre-eminent photographers. Those images are among ...

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 ...

That the photographer Walker Evans was one of the most important American artists of the 20th century is beyond dispute. His influence, starting in the 1930s, has been inestimable, not only on his ...

Ah, Americanness. Today, a word so hard to define. A word that conjures images of a nation divided, of a broad and growing gulf between opposing visions of just what America is and should be. But ...

Walker Evans’ career as a photographer was almost five decades long, beginning shortly after his return from France in 1928 and continuing to the year before his death in 1975. But he is best known ...

In the fall of 1974, Walker Evans was both strong-willed and in ill health — a Moses-looking art-world elder who held nothing back in his opinions of the culture and himself. In many critics’ eyes, ...

Walker Evans was never one to bow to authority. A photographer celebrated for his landmark work with the Depression-era Farm Security Administration, he fostered a reputation as a rebel and contrarian ...

Szarkowski, John, curator. "Walker Evans: Subway Photographs," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York, October 5-December 11, 1966. -solo "Walker Evans," Robert ...