Walker evans

American, 1903–1975

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Walker Evans, Washington Street, New York City, Wash Day, about 1930 - © Walker Evans Archive

Walker Evans. Havana Dock Worker. 1932-33. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970 by James Dow. 8 1/16 × 6 3/16" (20.5 × 15.7 cm). Purchase. 350.2015. © 2025 Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photography

The Centre Pompidou hosts the American photographer’s first retrospective in France spanning his entire career, and featuring more than 300 vintage prints

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Walker Evans - Hotel porch, Saratoga Springs, NY (1938)

Inscription: Artist's stamp, verso TL: "Walker Evans"; collector's stamp, verso C: "COLLECTION // ARNOLD H. CRANE, CHICAGO"; inscribed in the hand of Arnold Crane, verso C: "withdrawn // 12/71 // AHC"

Walker Evans. Subway Portrait. 1938-41. Gelatin silver print. 5 × 3 15/16" (12.8 × 10 cm). Purchase. 471.1966. © 2025 Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photography

Exhibition dates: 25th July – 9th November 2014 Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975) Young Women Outside Clothing Store 1934-1935 114 x 184mm Lunn Gallery Stamp (1975) © Walker Ev…

Walker Evans dropped out of college in 1923 and moved to New York with the ambition of becoming a writer. Three years later he was in Paris auditing classes in modern art and literature at the Sorbonne, concentrating on the work of Flaubert and Baudelaire

Winter Resorters, Florida Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut) Date: 1941, printed ca. 1970 Medium: Gelatin silver print Dimensions: 15.0 x 15.0 cm. (5 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.) Classification: Photographs Credit Line: Gift of Arnold H. Crane, 1971 Accession Number: 1971.646.4 Rights and Reproduction: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the start of SFMOMA’s deep-dive Walker Evans retrospective, on view through February 4, there’s an artfully blurred photo booth self-portrait. The 1927 picture has an ebullient energy that’s pure selfie – telegraphing that this formidable historical show has surprisingly contemporary relevance. Evans was clearly interested in the vernacular, and…

Walker Evans, Brooklyn, NY' (Clotheslines and Smokestacks); c. 1930

As photographic technology advanced—cameras became more portable and film more sensitive to light, requiring shorter exposure times—people w...

“…these anonymous people who come and go in the cities and who move on the land; it is on what they look like now; what is in their faces and in the windows and the streets beside and around them, what they are wearing and what they are riding in, and how they are gesturing … Continue reading "Clandestine Portraits of People Riding The New York Subway 1938-1941"

The 20th edition of Paris Photo, international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is a key rendez-vous for dealers, collectors, curators, artists and art aficionados. Some 60 000 visitors will discover 153 galleries, in both the main sector and PRISMES dedicated to large formats a...

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Walker Evans may be best known for his 1935 and 1936 Farm Security Administration documentary photos, but he had a long career that explored a range of...