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372 Rochester Optical Co. Universal Variation 1 %u2018Walker Evans%u2019 %u20ac3.000*no. 46, 1890-92, condition B+ %u20ac 6.000 %u2013 7.000Early first variation of the Universal model, owned andprobably used by the famous U.S. photographer Walker Evans early in his carrier, provenance: a personal and professional assistant of Mr. Evans who inherited the camera. F olding wooden camera with%u00a0reversing back for13%u2009%u00d7%u200918%u2009cm (5%u2009%u00d7%u20097\front part only, with a %u2018triple-convertible%u2019 type unmarked lens mounted in Wollensak Autex pneumatic shutter, originalblack bellows,%u00a0mahogany chassis with brass fittings,%u00a0in good,original condition,%u00a0with%u00a03%u2009%u00d7%u2009original film plate holders,12%u2009%u00d7%u2009Eastman 5%u2009%u00d7%u20097\original canvas hard case. Walker Evans (1903-1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist. He is widely acknowledged as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century and worked primarily in the US. His enormous artistic influence has been recognized not onlythere, but also internationally. He is best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression on the rural population inthe Mid 1930s. The portraits of the three families Fields, Borroughs and Tingle became icons of photography history. After 1945, Evans photographed, among others, American urban landscapes and industrial buildings for magazines like Harper%u2019s Bazaar, Vogue, Architectural Forum, Life and Fortune. Because of his documentary style, he is considered the forerunner of the German photographer couple Bernd and Hilla Becher. In 1938 the MoMa organized the firstexhibition for a single photographer for Walker Evans: American Photographs. Since then, many of his works are in permanent collections of museums or have been the subject of retrospectives at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Centre Pompidou, or, most notably at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and at the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, USA.Photographer%u2019s Cameras