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Walker Evans (1903-1975) found beauty in the commonplace and turned documentary photography into an art form. Made during the summer of 1936, his now classic photographs of three sharecroppers, their homes and their families-which were published in the eloquent book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men-are emblematic of how we have come to visualize the austerity of the Great Depression. hide information

Walker Evans (1903-1975) found beauty in the commonplace and turned documentary photography into an art form. Made during the summer of 1936, his now classic photographs of three sharecroppers, their homes and their families-which were published in the eloquent book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men-are emblematic of how we have come to visualize the austerity of the Great Depression. This stamp was issued by the United States Postal Service on June 13, 2002 as part of the Masters of American Photography series .