GBAW photographers part 2 (Walker Evans)

Walker Evans, November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975. Was an american photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration. Uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He said thathis goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent"

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Walker Evans came from an affluent family. He graduated from Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts. He studied French literature for a year at Williams College, spending much of his time in the school's library.

Evans took up photography in 1928. In 1933, he photographed in Cuba on assignment for the punlisher of Carleton Beals' then-forthcomming book. The crime of Cuba, photographing the revolt against the dictator Gerado Machado. In Cuba, Evans briefly knew Eernest Hemingway.