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This is an 8 page paper discussing Walker Evans’ life and photography with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1935 to 1938. Walker Evans (1903-1975) was an American photographer who is probably best known for the introduction of documentary style photography which depicted the people and places of the United States through his extensive collection of still photographs. His style was one in which he faced his subject matter straight on and used a small aperture with a large 8 by 10 negative to enable him to produce sharp detail in his work. One of his better known collections was derived from his contract with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from 1935 to 1938 when he took photographs of the buildings and people in the southern States during the Depression. His photographs of the poor tenant farmers were commissioned by the FSA to illustrate their need for government relief. Rather than create sympathetic scenes however, Evans remained formal in his approach to his subject matter and simply let the facts which existed provide ample evidence of the dire conditions of the farmers. Other photographs taken during his contract with the FSA were considered collages of local merchant life which again provided documentary-like detail in their context. Paper includes detail about three photographs taken during the contract with the FSA.
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through his extensive collection of still photographs. His style was one in which he faced his subject matter straight on and used a small aperture with a large 8 by
10 negative to enable him to produce sharp detail in his work. One of his better known collections was derived from his contract with the Farm Security Administration (FSA) from
1935 to 1938 when he took photographs of the buildings and people in the southern States during the Depression. His photographs of the poor tenant farmers were commissioned by the
FSA to illustrate their need for government relief. Rather than create sympathetic scenes however, Evans remained formal in his approach to his subject matter and simply let the facts which
existed provide ample evidence of the dire conditions of the farmers. Other photographs taken during his contract with the FSA were considered collages of local merchant life which again provided
documentary-like detail in their context. The Life and Work of Walker Evans Walker Evans was born in 1903 in St. Louis and attended Phillips Andover Academy with the hopes of
becoming a writer. Instead in 1926, Evans moved to Paris for two years and then onto New York where he began work in advertising which introduced him to the subject
matter which would make him a household name in photography, that is, signs, cafes, bridges, street scenes, poor people, and the lonely (Dillon, 2000). Lincoln Kirstein commissioned him to photograph
the architecture of New York and New England and the photographs were said to capture not only the beauty of the buildings themselves but also of the people who lived
within them. Evans was his own worse critic and his attention to the details in his work often led him to strip away many of the extra material which would
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