Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938
By Walker Evans
1973
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Lily Dale is a 122-year-old town populated solely by people who believe the dead live among them. It is the oldest and largest community of spiritualists in the world. Twenty thousand visitors a year travel to this Victorian village in upstate New York to consult mediums in order to communicate with dead relatives and peer into their own futures.
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Walker Evans
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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' 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
