Walker Evans

              Walker Evans was born on November 3rd,1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child, he enjoyed painting and collecting picture postcards. He also took small snapshots of friends and family with a Kodak camera. He didn't have the best academic record, and dropped out of Williams College in Willamstown, Massachusetts after only one year of college. He then moved to New York where he compiled a collection of dead end jobs, and after three years moved to France to be with his father and finish school. It was there where he developed a passion for writing, and tried to write, with very limited success. He then returned to New York in 1927, where another newfound interest of his, began to blossom. This new interest was in photography.    

            In his early stages of photography, he was greatly influenced by European artists and photographers, but slowly developed his own style. Some of his best work was in The Depression Years of 1935-36. Some of Evans' work was featured in the book, American Photographs, as well as in the book Many Are Called. Those featured photographs had remained unpublished for 25 years. He spent the latter part of his life working for Fortune magazine, where he was the mean photographer and writer. Evans died on April 10th, 1975 in New Haven, Connecticut.

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