This photo was shot by Walker Evans whom is remembered for his photographs during The Great Depression and the effects it had. All of his art work is black and white which during that time period fit the moment.
Walker Evans was born on November 3rd, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked as a store clerk from 1927-1929 on Wall Street, meanwhile, along with being a store clerk he also took up photography in 1928. Two of his inspirations were Eugène Atget and August Sander. Along with photography Evans also enjoyed reading and writing. In 1945 he booked a job to write for
Time Magazine, later on he joined
Fortune Magazine as an editor in 1965, along with being a professor at Yale University School of Art that same year. Evans passed away in his own home in New Haven, Connecticut 1975. At the turn of the millennium he was inaugurated into the Walk of Fame.
More of his artwork that I find pleasing to look at
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