Monday, April 4, 2011

Monday Morning Museum: Walker Evans





Walker Evans – Tuesday 3 November 1903 St. Louis, Missouri to Thursday 10 April 1975 Old Lyme, Connecticut

American Social Realist Photographer

I became aware of Walker Evans when I read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sometime during college. Before that transformative journalistic assignment, Evans photographed – Brooklyn Bridge, 1929



Last Monday’s Artist – Robert Rauschenberg
Next Monday’s Artist – Jacometto Veneziano

Images:
Left: Fields Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 from the website hubpages.com
Center: Levee Scene, Vicinity New Orleans, 1935 from the website metmuseum.org
Right: Tengle Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 from the website loc.gov
Below: “Monday Morning Museum” logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

Monday Morning Museum logo created by Adrean Darce Brent

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