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The Photograph

Walker Evans: Graveyard and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1935

About the Photographer

The photograph that is under discussion has been taken by one of the famous photographer, Walker Evans. Walker Evans was born on 1903 and died in the year 1975. Evans is widely recognized as a groundbreaker in photography for his evenhanded tactic to content and composition. He did photography in the early to mid 20th century, utilizing a camera of compact format to seize the United States' landscape and the habits of its people. Walker Evans demonstrated his creative pieces in series or sorted in publications, producing expansive stories searching the variety of American lives. Several of his photographs became symbolic of the distress caused by the Great Depression that influenced the lives of many, which Evans authenticated through his photos with the United States government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s.

Walker's Work

Creativity like that of Walker Evans in America is hardly known. He is considered popular next to D. Lang, one of the famous social photographers. At the beginning, Evans was engaged mainly in literature, visited several universities for about a year. H spent that time in Paris, where he sometimes read books written by S. Beach and Joyce, but he preferred to read Flaubert who led a bohemian lifestyle. In 1928, he started to take pictures, rejected the commercialism of Steyhen and as well as the artistic aspect of Stiglitz. Since the end of 1935, he worked with R Staykerom, author of the famous project “Farm Security Administration”. During this period, most of his famous works were published later in the Kirstein's monograph “American Photography” in combined exhibitions with Evans in the Museum of Modern Art and book “The hired peasants” (Miller & Pencak 2002, p. 517).

About the Photograph

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