Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Walker Evans

http://www.dia.org/object-info/6363c5c7-bc7b-4eae-9796-e0da1b136527.aspx?position=4


http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Few_Are_Chosen/1.L.htm


What I learned about him.


Lived from Nov. 3, 1903- April 19, 19175
Seventy one years old
born in St. Louis Missouri 


Best known work for FSA
(Farm Security Administration)


Also well known for documenting The Great Depression


Used a 8x10" camera
Wanted pictures to be
"Literate, Authoritative, Transcendent"


You can see his work at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
or
The George Eastman House.

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