Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

In 1973 and 1974 he also shot a long series with the then-new Polaroid SX-70 camera after age and poor health had made it difficult for him to work with elaborate equipment. In 2000 Evans was inducted into the St. In 1930 he publiWalker Evansd three photographs (Brooklyn Bridge) in the poetry book The Bridge by Hart Crane.

Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format 8x10-inch camera. Walker Evans (November 3 1903 – April 10 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.