The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is hosting “Walker Evans: Depth of Field,” through September 11, the touring retrospective of the work of the documentary photographer best known for capturing portraits of classic Americana—from small-town barber shops to road-side stands and the New York City subway—and for his prodigious coverage of the devastating fallout from the Great Depression. In the early 1930s, Evans also traveled to Cuba to document life on the island nation. The High Museum exhibition will feature more than 120 black-and-white and color prints covering the span of Evans’s spectacular 50-year career. As the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the home base of the Evans archive puts it— “from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, Evans recorded the American scene with the nuance of a poet and the precision of a surgeon, creating an encyclopedic visual catalogue of modern America in the making.”
