Walker Evans

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This paper presents a review of the life and work of Walker Evans. The paper makes reference to the documentaries and still photography which can be found in museums. After providing a brief introduction about the photographer's style of work during the 1930s, the paper provides a comprehensive and in-depth history of the life of Evans, including his family and education. Following the brief history, the paper highlights Walker Evans as an individual, while the latter part of the paper discusses the various stages of his career along with his important and significant works, awards and achievements during that era.

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"He sailed to Paris to complete his abroad thirteen months education in international modernism; and also gathered most of the tools he would require to become an artist. After returning to New York in May of 1927, he bought with him French books, which were his literary aspirations and his handful of little photographs. He also went to Europe to study French literature. At that time no American abroad may feel properly accoutered without a camera. But this elegant young with his pocket camera took a few photos, on a lark. One was a picture of a grim-lipped soldier in the classical Palazzo Royale, Naples while, another shot was of a man who is wittily juxtaposed with a fanciful four-lantern street lamp that upstaged him slightly."

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