Pump Gallery Photographers, Part 3

Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans’ work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8×10-inch camera. He wrote 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.

Evans was a passionate reader and writer, and in 1945 became a staff writer at Time magazine. Shortly afterward he became an editor at Fortune magazine through 1965. That year, he became a professor of photography on the faculty for Graphic Design at the Yale University School of Art (formerly the Yale School of Art and Architecture).

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Edwin Locke was employed by Roy Stryker as his assistant at the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1937. Principally a writer, Edwin A. Locke would be best characterized as a talented amateur as a photographer, though he held his own with Walker Evans in his photographs of the 1937 flood refugees.Edwin A. Locke was married briefly during the 1940s to Esther Bubley, another of the FSA photographers, and would later be reunited with Stryker on projects for Standard Oil of New Jersey.