Walker Evans (1903–1975)

This book is a collaboration between The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, and The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, in association with The University of New Mexico Press. With text by Thomas W. Southall, stories by William Christenberry, and excerpts from the writing of James Agee, it presents black & white photos taken by Walker Evans in the Depression South and color photos taken recently by painter and photographer William Christenberry of many of the places Evans visited, places that Christenberry knows intimately , having been born and raised there or nearby.… (mer)

The introduction by Lloyd Fonvielle is one of the more informative I have read in the Masters of Photography series. In addition to a renowned photographer, Evans served as in an editorial role at Fortune Magazine for 20 years and as a professor at Yale University for the last ten years of his life.

Evans photographs documented the dark, ominous streets (Factory Street, Amsterdam, New York, 1930) and the nobility (Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936) and playfulness (Roadside Store Between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, Alabama, 1936) of people in the great depression.… (mer)