This Day in History: 1903-11-03

Walker Evans, American photographer and journalist, is born on this day in 1903  in St. Louis Missouri. Evans is best remembered for his work documenting the Great Depression. He took up photography in 1928 and began publishing  in 1930. He spent time in Cuba with Ernest Hemingway photographing street life and the waterfront. In 1935 he began to photograph work in the south focusing on white tenant families. He later became a writer for Time magazine and a professor of photography at Yale University School of Art. In 2000, he was inducted into the St. Louis Hall of Fame.