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Walker Evans   American, 1903 - 1975
Kitchen Wall, Alabama Floyd Burroughs, Alabama Church Organ Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York Bed, Tennant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama Allie Mae Burroughs, Alabama
Bed, Tennant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama
Zoom inBed, Tennant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama, 1935
Walker Evans, 1903 - 1975
Gelatin-silver print
Walker Evans is one of the most celebrated American photographers. During the Great Depression of the 1930's, he worked for the American government’s Farm Security Administration programme, and created some of the most potent and memorable images of the era. His documentary style focussed on the details of individual human lives in unforgiving circumstances. "I am for man’s work", he said; "nature bores me as an art form". Evans went on to take pictures of people on the New York subway using a hidden camera, a series on tools and Polaroid images of rural and urban Americana.
Ph.170-1977