Walker Evans

Known for: Depression-era documentary photography for the FSA; American Photographs (1938)

Walker Evans joined the Farm Security Administration in 1935, producing photographs of rural poverty in the American South that remain among the most lucid examples of documentary photography. His collaboration with James Agee — a summer spent with three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 — was published as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). He later joined Fortune magazine as a staff photographer, a position he held from 1945 to 1965.