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Name: Walker Evans
Birth Date: November 3, 1903
Death Date: 1975
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: photographer

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Biography of Walker Evans
731 words, approx. 2 pages
An American photographer, Walker Evans (1903-1975) was best known for his photographs of American life between the world wars. Everyday objects and people--the urban and rural poor, abandoned buildings, storefronts, street signs, and the like--are...
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Biography of Walker Evans
3,371 words, approx. 11 pages
Walker Evans was, quite simply, "the most influential American photographer of the twentieth century," according to Bruce Jackson's appraisal posted on the University of Buffalo Art Gallery Web site. Jackson credited Evans with influencing such...


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Walker Evans ( 1903-11-03 – 1975-04-10 ) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression . Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the large-format 8x10in...


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Walker Evans Information
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Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' work from the FSA period uses the...


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Publishers Weekly
WALKER EVANS.(Review)
04/26/1999: 310 words, approx. 1 pages
James R. Mellow. Basic, $40 (654p) ISBN 0-465-09077-X When NBA-winning biographer James R. Mellow (Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company) died in 1997, he left behind an unfinished manuscript on the life of American photographer Walker Evans. That manuscript makes up the...
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New Criterion
The passion of Walker Evans.
03/01/2000: 5,429 words, approx. 18 pages
America's infatuation with photography has thrived upon its easy accessibility. By 1903, the year Walker Evans was born, George Eastman had made the roll-film camera so cheap that soon no family reunion or Sunday picnic need ever lack a "photo artist" to immortalize...
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The New York Observer
Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook
12/3/2006: 445 words, approx. 2 pages
I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago, and so I found I couldn’t force myself to read the whole of Against...
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The New York Observer
Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook
12/3/2006: 444 words, approx. 2 pages
I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago, and so I found I couldn’t force myself to read the whole of...
 


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