The Years of bitterness and pride: Farm Security Administration, FSA photographs, 1935-1943

by Walker Evans, Farm Security Administration Staff

FSA (Farm Security Administration) photgraphs 1935-1943

Genres: Photography, Art

85 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1975

About the author

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. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera. He said that his goal as a photographer was to make pictures that are "literate, authoritative, transcendent".

Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospectives at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art or George Eastman House.

In 2000, Evans was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame