(Walker Evans, Instant Color Printing / Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Samuel J. A gift from Beckest and Laila Acheson Wallace, 1994 / © Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Most of Evans' work in the New Deal was done using an 8×10-inch (200×250 mm) widescreen camera. He said his goal as a photographer was to take pictures that were "literate, authoritative, transcendent."[1] Many of his works are in the permanent collections of museums and have been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the George Eastman Museum.
Polaroid provided Depression-era documentarian Walker Evans with an unlimited supply of film for his SX-70 in 1973, and the simplicity of Polaroid allowed the infirm Evans to film in the last years of his life. "No one should touch a polaroid until they're over 60,” Evans said.