Walker Evans

Timeline created by Devan.Nealy in Art and Culture

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/03/1903	Birth Date	Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri.
11/30/1908	Interest in Photography	As a small child Walker Evans started painting and coloring. He also collecting picture postcards and he took snapshots of his family with a small kodak camera.
11/30/1926	College Career	When he graduated from highschool he went to Williams college and dropped out a year later. He then moved to New York finding work wherever he could. He actually started writing and started writing short stories.
11/30/1928	Interest In Photography	After writing for 2 years he decided to take photography on as a hobby.
11/30/1935	Government Photography Job	He accepted a job from the U.S. Department of the Interior to photograph a government built community of unemployed coal miners in West Virginia.
11/30/1936	Traveling Photography	Walker Evans left to go to the south with a friend who was writing a story about the tenant farmers. Evans took this as a opportunity to photograph the farmers for a collection called Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
09/30/1938	Museum of Modern Art	This museum opened an American Photographs exhibit featuring Evans' first decade of photos.
11/30/1966	Published Subway Photos	The Subway pictures were not published until 1966. They were published in the book called "Many Are Called."
11/30/1973	New Camera	Evans began to shoot with a Polaroid SX-70 camera. This camera allowed him to go back to themes he wanted to continue using such as signs, posters, and letters.
11/30/1974	Sickness	Walker Evans became horribly sick. It is said that he could barely hold a small polaroid SX-70 camera.
04/10/1975	Death Date	Walker Evans Passed away on April 10, 1975 at the Yale New-Haven Hospital in Conneticut from Brain hemorrhage.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
11/30/1938 to 11/30/1941	New York City Subway Photography	Evans went to New York to take pictures of the Subways in New York.