Walker Evans
The great black and white photographer Walker Evans was born November 3, 1903 in St. Lewis Missouri. Evans was moved around in his early life and went to many different schools. He went to several secondary schools like Phillips Academy is Andover, Massachusetts. In college he went to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts where like in grade school his academic record was inconsistent and not the best. He dropped out of college only one year in, after leaving he went to New York and worked at non-promising, knock-off jobs that didn't last long at all. When having no success in his first working years in New York his father, an advertising executive, in 1926 offered to pay for Evans schooling in Paris, France. There he attended classes in Sorbonne where he attempted the path of being a writer. Evans went back to New York and lived in Greenwich Village with writers block. While in France, Evans took a couple photographs which grew his interest in photography. In 1928 Evans photography career began. Walker Evans died April 10, 1975 in New Haven, Connecticut.
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