One of the rare works which this man printed himself was a series of snapshots of "low-priced, factory produced works" and was shot on an 8x10 camera, his black and white portfolio Beauties of the Common Tool. This photographer derided much of his own work for Fortune magazine as too commercial, and it was for Fortune that he produced his first color work in 1945, which he also rejected on account
One of the rare works which this man printed himself was a series of snapshots of "low-priced, factory produced works" and was shot on an 8x10 camera, his black and white portfolio Beauties of the Common Tool. This photographer derided much of his own work for Fortune magazine as too commercial, and it was for Fortune that he produced his first color work in 1945, which he also rejected on account of its color being too vulgar. His preference for light that illuminated flat, frontal, almost airless images can be seen in Moundville, Alabama, a Great Depression photo-essay. His best known publication was derived from material gathered during his stay with three white tenant families in southern Alabama. For 10 points, name this man who alongside James Agee created Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
One of the rare works which this man printed himself was a series of snapshots of "low-priced, factory produced works" and was shot on an 8x10 camera, his black and white portfolio Beauties of the Common Tool.
Walker Evans