Walker Evans to jeden z wielkich fotografow, obok Dorothea Lange i Berenice Abbott, dokumentujacych efekt doby gospodarczej depresji.
Amplifying information about Evans' life and philosophy with more than 50 richly reproduced photos. A college dropout, Evans embraced photography as a means of elevating the everyday stuff of life to the realm of art, whether in black-and-white images of subway riders and suffering sharecroppers or the eclectic color Polaroids that comprised his later work. Nau's brisk, expository treatment lacks the copious anecdotes about personal struggles and technical achievements that enliven the best artists' biographies. But shutterbugs, including those above and below the suggested age range, will find inspiration in Evans' uncompromising images--particularly the stark, quiet scenes from the seminal Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), created with James Agee--and may wish to move on to works suggested in Nau's well-rounded bibliography.
