Perspective: The last photos made by a legendary American photographer
Walker Evans is one of the most vaunted American photographers in history. His name is evoked with reverence; his influence continues to shine through in work by contemporary photographers to this day, its imprimatur now firmly established in the canon of American photography.The photographs that Evans is known for are the seemingly straightforward images he made of sharecroppers, interiors of buildings, signs and other vestiges of life.
“This is neither a baroque nor a decorative, but a purely protestant attitude: meager, stripped, cold and, on occasion, humorous. It is also the naked, difficult, solitary attitude of a member revolting from his own class.” “Existential dread — numbed by alcohol, pills, and social privilege — pressed on Walker during his last years. His refusal to succumb sent him staggering into the world to make photographs of people who were still alive. Many of them were young.
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