Walker Evans

Born in St. Louis, Missouri. His father was an advertising director. He spent his youth in Toledo, Chicago, and New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts in 1922. He spent much of his time in the school library, before dropping out. After spending a year in Paris in 1926, He returned to the United States to join the edgy literary and art crowed in New York City. he was a clerk for a stockbroker firm in Wall Street from 1927 to 1929. Evans took up photography in 1928 around the time he was living in Ossining, New York. In 1930, He published 3 photographs (Brooklyn Bridge) in the poetry book The Bridge by Hart Crane. But Later on in life in 1975, He had passed away in his home in Lyme, Connecticut. These are some photos that he took.