“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
~Oscar Wilde
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 Evan’s work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are “literate, authoritative, and transcendent.”� Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums, and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His life is a fascinating journey into the heart and mind of someone who wanted to identify with the common man so badly that he left his largely affluent life to take photographs of the poorest of the poor during the Great Dustbowl. His photographs are astounding.
Bedside reading table, The Rutledge House, Charleston, SC
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