“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” Walker Evans "When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn’t considered an artist. I didn’t get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that’s just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it." Walker Evans One of most important of 20th-century American photographers. The significance of Walker Evans in the establishment of photography as art can hardly be overemphasized. His work serves as the nexus for many strands of 20th-century photography.... Evans’ emphasis on the everyday and his historically inflected vision have been a model for generations of photographers and an important point of reference ...to this day.... Walker Evans III was born Nov. 3, 1903, in St. Louis. Like other important American artists of his time, he spent his early years in the Midwest before moving to the more cosmopolitan East Coast to find a place in the culture of his era. Following a year in Paris in 1926, he returned to live in NYC in 1927. At the time, Evans thought of himself as a writer.... (http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.nl/2016/11/walker-evans-depth-of-field.html) ...one of the most pivotal American photographers of the 20th century. He inspired a league of influential street photographers such as Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, and even Bruce Gilden. Most famous for photographing the Great Depression with the FSA, his candid work of Subway riders in NYC, and his street photos and urban landscapes all around America.... He was also a non-dogmatic photographer who often proclaimed that the camera didn’t matter....(http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/09/05/17-lessons-walker-evans-has-taught-me-about-street-photography/) http://www.americansuburbx.com/2011/10/interview-walker-evans-with-students.html undefined

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