Walker Evans

Walker Evan's was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis Missouri. As a child Evan's showed interest in painting and photography, taking picture of his family with a small Kodak camera. Later he went to Williams Collage but soon dropped out and moved to New York. He enjoyed reading and writing so he would take jobs in book stores and the public library where he could constantly read. Evan's moved to Paris, France for about a year then moved back to New York and became a writer while also taking up photography. Evan's early photo's were influenced by the European style of photography because of his year in Paris. In 1936 Evan's took time out of work to go to down south on a trip with his friend James Agee, who was writing an article on three family's in Alabama and Evan's was the photographer.  Though Agee's article was not published by Fortune Magazine, Evan's photos where portrait as "representations of the Great Depression." Evan's photo collection of American Photographs was put up in the Museum of Modern Art but his other photographs weren't published till around 1938-1941 where Houghton Mifflin showed some of his Subway pictures i his book Many are Called. From between 1934-1965 Fortune magazine  had around 400 photos and 45  articles of Evan's. He also contributed to Luxe magazine and Special Photographic editor between 1945-1965. Evans died April 10, 1975.