From an affluent
family, Evans used both his experience on Wall Street as well as his
position within the New York 'in' crowd to cement a position for
himself as an important documenter of the issues of crime, poverty,
and economic decline for his generation.
In the summer of 1936
Evans and writer James Agee were sent by Fortune magazine on
assignment. While the subsequent story was not run, the pair
published the groundbreaking 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' in 1941,
documenting rural farming from a person and deep perspective of three
families.
Evan's most interesting
works are perhaps the result of his technique to photograph his
subjects surreptitiously through the use of low angles or hidden
cameras. The following examples of his work are taken from his journeys on the New York subway:
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