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ID: 500012076
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500012076
 
Record Type: Person
Evans, Walker (American photographer, 1903-1975)

Note: Born 3 November 1903; died 10 April 1975. In 1928, Evans worked as a freelance photographer in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City, New York. In 1930 Evans undertook a project to photograph popular housing and Victorian architecture in New England. In 1935, Evans travelled to New Orleans, Louisiana to photograph southern plantation architecture. From 1935 to 1937, Evans worked as a staff photographer for the Farm Security Administration. In 1935, he documented the coal mines and industrial towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia as well as the effects of flooding in Arkansas and Tennessee in 1936-1937. In 1937, Evans undertook a project with James Agee to photograph the lives of tenent farm families in Hale County, Alabama. The project was turned into a book entitled "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". In 1943, Evans joined the staff of Time Magazine. From 1945 to 1965, Evans acted as editor and photographer for Fortune Magazine. During the 1950s Evans began to focus on American industrial landscapes.

Names:
Evans, Walker (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Evans, Walker (Dutch-P,NA)
Walker Evans (V,display)
אוונס, ווקר (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
writer
author
painter
lecturer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Saint Louis (St. Louis Indep. City, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  New Haven (New Haven county, Connecticut, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   New York state (United States) (state)
active:   Alabama (United States) (state)
active:   Pennsylvania (United States) (state)
active:   Louisiana (United States) (state)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
teacher of ....  Fernández, Jesse  
..................  (Cuban photographer, 1925-1986) [500599017]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Evans, Walker (I)

Biographies:
(American photographer, 1903-1975) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, 1903-1975) ..... [BHA]
(American photographer; born Saint Louis (Missouri, United States), 1903; died New Haven (Connecticut, United States), 1975) ..... [CCA]
(American, 1903-1975) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer, 1903-1975) ..... [AVERY]
(American photographer, 1903-1975) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1903-1975) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, 1903-1975) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, 1903-1975) ..... [IMJ]
(American photographer, 1903-1975) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
אוונס, ווקר ........ [IMJ]
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Evans, Walker ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
............................  Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50009155
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 237778
Walker Evans ........ [CCA, GRISC, MoMA, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, RKD, VP]
....................  Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Dixon, Photographers of the Farm Security Administration (1983) 17-18
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50009155
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) LOC ID: n50009155
....................  Mora and Hill, Walker Evans (1993)
....................  Naylor, Contemporary Photographers (1988)
....................  New York Times (11 April 1975)
....................  Newhall, History of Photography (1982)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 237778
....................  Who Was Who in America (1899-1890-)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q363308
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, VP]
.......... Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985)
.......... Dixon, Photographers of the Farm Security Administration (1983) 18
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Mora and Hill, Walker Evans (1993) 54, 122, 134
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