Walker Evans was an American photographer born on November 3rd of 1903 in Missouri and he died on April 10th of 1975 in Connecticut. He is mostly known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.
His goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative and transcendent". Most of his great photos were exhibited in famous museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman House.
He used to take pictures in black and white and most of them are specially portraits of people. In the photos anyone appear smiling or happy because as I have just said, the took pictures of the effect of the Great Depression.
The faces of the people on the pictures are very expressive, it seem that all of them have an interesting story to tell about their life.
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