Walker Evans
American · 1903–1975
Documentary photographer whose precise, unadorned images of Depression-era America for the FSA established a vernacular aesthetic that influenced generations.
Wikipedia ↗“People out of work are not given to talking about it much; in this respect they are like the dead.”
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“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
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“I think what I am doing is valid and worth doing, and I use the word transcendent. That's my aim.”
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“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
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“Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.”
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