Friday 27 April 2012

Walker Evans

Walker Evans was born on November the 3rd 1903 and died on April the 10th 1975. He was an american photographer best known for his work for Farm Security Administration which documented the effects of the Great Depression. Most of his early photographs reveal the influence of European modernism specifically for its formalism and emphasis on dynamic graphic structures.

Here is one of the examples of his photographs relating to the Great Depression. this is  a portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs.

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