Walker Evans: Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931. Photograph: catalogue.
Evans was influenced by the French photographer Eugène Atget, whose work he got to now in 1929 thanks to his friend Berenice Abbott. Walker was also impressed by another Frenchman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose pictures he admired when they were first shown in New York in 1933.
The result of the experience was his classic book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Evans worked as a staff photographer for Fortune. He died in 1975.
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