Talk:Walker Evans
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[edit] Personal Life
Anyone know much about his personal life? I know a little about his early New York days, but if there isn't any other personal life info about the rest of his life, I won't add it. Also I think it's important to mention somewhere that Walker Evans was gay.
[edit] Other
I have heard that Walker Evans was a government agent sent to kill hoboes, and that he hunted Hobo King Joey Stink Eye Smiles. But I am not sure. --- The three familes headed by Bud Fields, Floyd Burroughs and Frank Tingle, lived in Hale County, Alabama, near the small town of Akron. The families were sharecroppers, which, in essence, meant they were virtual slaves to wealthy landowners in the area.
These landowners told the three families that Evans and Agee were "Soviet agents," although Allie Mae Burroughs, Floyd's wife, recalled discounting that information during interviews conducted later in her life.
Evan's photographs of the families made them icons of Depression-Era misery and poverty. Today, in Hale County, Alabama, Evans, Agee and "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," remain controversial -- with many of the subjects' desendents maintaining the family was presented in an unflattering light by Evans's photographs. And many of the subjects' "asendents" did roll in their graves thinking about those photographs. You'll see that in the elevated piles of earth in Evans's pictures in graveyards in Hale County. The "asendents" who didn't roll over in their graves have level and even sunken graves, which Evans chose not to photograph.
Evans and Agee were orginally sent to Hale County on assignment by Fortune magazine, which subsequently opted not to run the story. In September, 2005, Fortune revisted Hale County and revisited the desendents of the three families for its 75th anniversary issue: [Link://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune75/articles/0,15114,1101514,00.html]. Every decade or so an editor at Fortune proposes to do a sort of re-make of an old-fashioned, classic Fortune magazine from the 1930s. These remakes are always better than the originals because they're more up-to-date about the importance of celebrities, unlike the old fuddy-duddy Fortune that Evans worked for, the one with its stupid, ugly stories and rotten printing and lousy paper and bad binding.
Source: Local information in Hale County and Fortune Magazine, Sept. 9, 2005
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