Walker Evans:
Walker Evans was born in 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved to Paris and New York to study more in French and write short stories and nonfiction essays. In continuing his studies, it motivated him to also start photography. In the beginning, most of his photographs were influenced by European modernism. However, he slowly developed his own style which was based on realism. During the Depression years, he began to take pictures of ordinary American life such as churches, barbershops, and farmers. By taking these pictures, he showed respect towards the culture of lower and middle classes and started to spread his name. His photos are in black and white and portray the life of people in the Great Depression. Most of the time, in his photos, the figures are positioned in the center and taken from various angles. He said “[the artists should be] like God in Creation … he should be everywhere felt, but nowhere seen” This shows the idea that he had while doing photography.
Sources:
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walker-Evans
Lee Friedlander was born in 1934 in Aredeen and he is known to photograph American urban landscapes. The pictures that he took usually involve signs, a reflection of people, or himself. Friedlander said that we don’t necessarily have to go out to find something to photograph. He believed that he could photograph everything that is around us. This tells us about the idea that he had in photography and explains why he took the pictures of the city life and also many other different subjects. In his photos, it is taken black and white and most of the time, the figures or the subjects are in the center of the picture.
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