Walker evans

Evans worked with little concern for the ideological agenda or the suggested itineraries and instead answered a personal need to distill the essence of American life from the simple and the ordinary.

American, 1903–1975

Presenting new visions in documentary photography.

MoMA | Walker Evans. Subway Portrait. from the series Subway Portraits. 1938–41:

Walker Evans Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1929

From New York molls to Negro churches, a new exhibition at New York's MoMA shows us bygone America through the eyes of photographer Walker Evans

From New York molls to Negro churches, a new exhibition at New York's MoMA shows us bygone America through the eyes of photographer Walker Evans

liquidnight: “ Walker Evans New York City, 1928-1929 [From the Metropolitan Museum of Art] ”

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Walker Evans’ black-and-white photographs captured the tough realities of US life in the 1930s. They still have resonance today, writes Alastair Sooke.