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Birth Date
Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. -
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. -
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. -
Interest In Photography
After writing for 2 years he decided to take photography on as a hobby. -
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. -
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. -
Museum of Modern Art
This museum opened an American Photographs exhibit featuring Evans' first decade of photos. -
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New York City Subway Photography
Evans went to New York to take pictures of the Subways in New York. -
Published Subway Photos
The Subway pictures were not published until 1966. They were published in the book called "Many Are Called." -
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. -
Sickness
Walker Evans became horribly sick. It is said that he could barely hold a small polaroid SX-70 camera. -
Death Date
Walker Evans Passed away on April 10, 1975 at the Yale New-Haven Hospital in Conneticut from Brain hemorrhage.
