WALKER EVANS
The images above are from a famous photographer called Walker Evans.
Walker Evans was born in Missouri in 1903-1975. He is best known for his 1930’s and 1940’s documentary photographs of the United States. He spent an early part of his career experimentally photographing the streets of New York. From 1935, he worked for the Farm Security Administration and travelled through the mid-west and southern states of America creating his most important and significant work. Evans was the first photographer that the museum of Modern Art in New York honoured with a solo exhibition called Walker Evans, American photographers
Picked fruit and cut flowers, artefact of glass, plastic, wood and metal objects are just some of the things gathered and put in front of a camera to photograph. In the 1820’s ad 30’s photographers could simply not resist in gathering these ornaments to capture not only a photograph but also a story. The still life was ideal for a world of accelerated manufacture and exchange, mobilising desires and expressing tastes.
MITCH EPSTEIN
Another contemporary photographer that focuses on still life is Mitch Epstein.
