For those photography buffs familiar with the groundbreaking pictures he made for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, the notion that a powerful, uncompromising artist like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. For several years in the late 1930s, the photographer Walker ...

American photographer Walker Evans is perhaps best remembered for his images of America in the 1930s. Born on November 3 in 1903, Evans initially aspired to become a writer and studied French ...

Curated from the Clark and Joan Worswick collection by James Crump for the Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. Presented at Huis Marseille in cooperation with Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung ...

In black and white, the photographs of Walker Evans capture the stark reality of New Orleans and Louisiana during the Great Depression. Evans came to New Orleans in 1935 to photograph the city and the ...

“‘Knocking around between money, sex, and boredom’: Walker Evans in Havana and New York” is the title of this year’s Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture being presented by noted art historian John Tagg at ...

Walker Evans was such an influential 20th-century American photographer — and writer, editor and teacher — that when a wide range of his images is displayed, it’s as if we’ve seen them before. For one ...

Known for iconic images of the Great Depression and for finding poetry in subjects as mundane as a junkyard, 20th-century photography giant Walker Evans has inspired an extensive retrospective at the ...

Corrugated Tin Facade / Tin Building, Moundville, Alabama, Walker Evans, 1936. (Photo by Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) In Starting From Scratch, art historian Svetlana ...

This fall, the Met pairs images of Florida by Walker Evans and Anastasia Samoylova, the first living female photographer with a major show there in some three decades. By Laura van Straaten Inspired ...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Jared Buckhiester’s uncanniness, a group show starring Nancy Shaver, Uman’s new visual language and Machteld Rullens’s riffs on cardboard. By Will ...