Both poetry and photographs tell the stories of ordinary people living in America during the 1930s at the time of the Great Depression. Social studies. History.

"In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by the American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado and the long, torturous relationship between the United States and Cuba.". "As novelist and poet Andrei Codrescu points out in the essay that accompanies this selection of photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, Evans's photographs...

Presents the life and examples of the unusual photography of Walker Evans from 1903 to 1975.