1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1903–1975 · UNITED STATES
Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
- Born
- 1903
- Died
- 1975
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1938American Photographs
- 1941Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- 1966Many Are Called
WHY THEY MATTER
MoMA exhibition American Photographs (1938); three Guggenheim Fellowships; his estate's holdings went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
THE LIFE
Evans documented the Great Depression for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration. Most of that work was made with a large 8 by 10 inch view camera. The Museum of Modern Art showed American Photographs in 1938, and he later received three Guggenheim Fellowships. In his last years he worked with a Polaroid SX-70.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
View camera, 8 x 10 inch, Polaroid SX-70
Also born in 1900–1929
1902–1984 · United States · Photographer
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
1902–2002 · Mexico · Photographer
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
1903–1993 · Mexico · Photographer
Lola Alvarez Bravo
Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
1904–1983 · United Kingdom · Photographer
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia
1904–1999 · Argentina · Photographer
Grete Stern
Surreal photomontages and modernist portraits.
Los Sueños (for Idilio), 1948Source: Wikipedia