WALKER EVANS. NO POLITICS

NO POLITICS whatever. Walker Evans made this emphatic declaration in 1935, the year he began work for FDRs Resettlement Administration. Evans insisted that his photographs of tenant farmers and their homes, breadlines, and the unemployed should be treated as pure record. The American photographers statements have often been dismissed. In Walker Evans: No Politics, Stephanie Schwartz challenges us to engage with what it might mean, in the 1930s and at the height of the Great Depression, to refuse to work politically.