Walker Evans

                         (Evans, W. 1936) Charles and his father Floyd Burroughs, Alabama cotton sharecropper
                      Available at: http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/childlit/1930s/evans_burroughs_fc.html
                                                                        (Accessed: 20th of April, 2012)


Walker Evans (1903-1975) was an American photographer whose work is prominent, symbolic and most quoted even in the present-day. His work portrayed the challenges of rural poverty and social isolation which affected the local everyday life of people who were considered victims of the Great Depression in America.  (Ludwig Muzeum, 2009)


"Walker Evans` practice began as an abstractionist, exploring the new aesthetic possibilities of modernist society. His early subjects were architectural and focussed particularly on New York City. However, he soon became obsessed with recording the rawness of life lived by the poor and dispossessed." (http://www.a-website.org/design/photo/walker_evans.html, 1948).

Evans, W. 1936 Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife

Available at:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm

(Accessed 20 April 2012)

Looking at Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife`s picture, in her face we can see an irreversible sorrow, immersing on her face we feel that many bad things happened, no one can make her life better again.

                                                          Evans, W. 1936 Alabama Tenant Farmer
                                                                                 Available at:
                                                    http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm
                                                                       (Accessed 20 April 2012)




Even if Evans depicts the most dramatic moments of a family, of the society in his photos there is always present the beauty, the essence of being human. His compositions are esthetic, well selected, inspiring the viewer to think about or do something. The great photographer puts in the viewer`s mind the problem, to face it and learn from it by the effects given.




Ludwig Museum (2009) Válságjelek - Luis Buñuel, Walker Evans, Theo Frey, a hollandiai arbeidersfotografen, Kálmán Kata és mások. Available at: http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/site.php?inc=kiallitas&kiallitasId=471&menuId=45 (Accessed 19 April 2012).


http://www.a-website.org/design/photo/walker_evans.html, (1948) (Accessed: 20 April 2012).