Born in 1903, Walker Evans is surely one of the most influential photographers in the history of photography. His photographs are anchored in the collective memory for their captivating reality. His critical representation of poverty during the Great Depression in the 1930s is no doubt his most famous work, but one cannot overlook the photographs he took in the following decades. Decade by Decade is a retrospective of his entire body of work, bringing together many photographs that have gone almost unnoticed, including his final series, for which he used a Polaroid camera. In this selection of more than 200 humanistic and personal photographs, we see the close relationship between Evans and MoMA curator John Szarkowski, who offered the photographer a retrospective in 1971, helping to revive his reputation and cement his image as an innovator. Walker Evans was a photographer for Time and Fortune Magazine between 1945 and 1965, when he began teaching photography at Yale. He died in 1975 in Old Lyme, Connecticut, taking with him one of the most compassionate eyes of the 20th century.
Jonas Cuénin
Decade by Decade
Until January 20th, 2013
Die Photographische Sammlung
SK Stiftung Kultur
Im Mediapark
7
50670 Köln
Germany
