1903-1975

Complete holdings of the Getty Museum's Walker Evans' photograph collection, some never before published covering such subjects as tenant farmers of the 1930s and the Ringling Brothers Circus in the 1940s to his Polaroids taken in the 1970s.

Contains six essays that examine various aspects of the life and work of twentieth-century American photographer Walker Evans, and includes a catalogue of over 175 black-and-white photographs taken throughout his career.

In the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, portrayed the lives of three sharecropper families in the South during the Depression, documenting the tyranny of the tenant farming system that enslaved some nine million tenants in 1936. Fifty years later, Maharidge and Williamson have revisited, photographed, and interviewed the surviving members and descendants of the families shown in that book.

Showcases the photography of Walker Evans, from the 1920s to the 1970s, and includes an essay that discusses the significance of the meeting between Evans and John Szarkowski, an aspiring photographer who went on to become the curator of the Museum of Modern Art.

Presents an illustrated biography of twentieth-century American photographer Walker Evans through a collection of black-and-white photos of posters, billboards, tenant families, and other aspects of urban and rural America.