In he spent a year studying French literature at Williams College in Massachusetts before quitting to work in the bookstores of New York City and Paris. There he wrote short stories and befriended writers including John Cheever and Hart Crane.
The invention of the pocket Kodak camera enabled Evans to photograph the people he met on his travels; eventually, this led him to abandon his dreams of becoming a writer and turn to documentary photography. But his love of literature is visible in his early images, which retain a strong sense of narrative structure. Evans quickly developed his own style, eschewing formal European Modernism in favour of a more modest approach. His images of Victorian houses in Boston were published alongside text by Lincoln Kirstein.
Find out more about our updated online sales calendar. While there, Evans photographed the people affected by the oppressive regime. It was in Cuba that Evans developed his signature humanist aesthetic. He was at loose ends… and he needed a drinking companion, and I filled the role for two weeks. In the s, Evans ended two decades of work at Fortune magazine and accepted a professorship at Yale. Recognized as a landmark at the time, Message From the Interior marks a turning point in Evans's career, away from commercial photography and toward more moody, evocative, personal pieces.
The series, published as a book in , depicts empty interiors. Evoking the work of Eugene Atget, Evans's personal hero, Evans captures sagging chairs, rumpled bedding, and half-opened doors in great detail as if to preserve these weary structures for eternity.
In Upstairs Room, Walpole, Maine , signs of human presence are evident in the worn floorboards, the scuffed rug, and even the positioning of the chair near the wall at an angle, as if a weary arm has recently placed it there. The lived-in texture of each inanimate object evokes not just one but many dwellers, now absent, who lived in the house over generations. Positively received by critics, these interiors are a meditation on the history of everyday life, and a continuation of Evans's life-long project: exploring different ways to capture what he saw as the essence of humanity.
Content compiled and written by Alicia Lopez. Edited and revised, with Summary and Accomplishments added by Ruth Epstein. The Art Story. Ways to support us. Louis, Missouri, USA. Movements and Styles: Modern Photography. Die knowing something. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard.
Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it. This quality is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman.
If the thing is there, why, there it is. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes. I like to make you feel that an interior is almost inhabited by somebody. Summary of Walker Evans The photographs of Walker Evans told the story of American working-class life with an exacting frankness that was truly revolutionary for its time.
Read full biography. Read artistic legacy. Artwork Images. Influences on Artist. August Sander. Berenice Abbott. Ernest Hemingway. Ralph Steiner. Ben Shahn. James Agee. Hart Crane. Submit Cancel. We use MailChimp as our marketing automation platform. By submitting this form, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.
Engage with ICP from Anywhere. We Need Your Support. Fall exhibitions on view through January 10, Learn More. Biography Walker Evans is one of the leading photographers in the history of American documentary photography. Barker with Megaphone Outside Food Stand, Untitled Mule and Overturned Bucket , A Carpenter, Westmoreland , James Hyman Gallery.
Interior of a Farmhouse near Ridgeley, New York, New York. Battlefield Monument of Officer with Horse, Tuscaloosa Wrecking Company and Auto Parts, Coal Dock Worker, Havana , Bessemer, Alabama.
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