Walker Evans

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The documentary photography of photographer Walker Evans is critically examined referring specifically to at least four images, in relation to the humanist approach to photography. The paper also includes a discussion of arguments for and against such an approach. Photos analyzed are "Women Stooped Over in Field", "St Mathew's School, Alabama"; "Vicksburg, Mississippi" and "Hitch Hikers".

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"Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1903. His parents were well off, and very conservative. He first studied literature, and lived in Paris for a year studying to be a writer. He first began taking photographs in 1928, with a small hand held, roll film camera. He worked as a broker on Wall Street until the Crash of 1929, then "came to prominence during the Great Depression photographing for the Farm Security Administration, where in three years he produced his best known and most enduring work" (Kingston). Evans died in 1975 in New Haven, Connecticut."

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