Send A Walker Evans is a Facebook Application that distributes a Walker Evans photograph of your choice to your Facebook friends. Facebook needs more educational tools – now is a great time to introduce or remind your friends of America during the Great Depression through the lens of Walker Evans.
The twenty images in this collection were commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration (1930s-40s) to document the American people and their landscape during the 20th Century Depression. As we are nearing an economic depression in 2009 (are we there yet?), Walker Evans’ photographs seem as newsworthy today as they were in the 1930s. Images in this collection were commissioned by the US government. You can find most of the images as very high resolution TIFF files at the Library of Congress website if you want to send prints instead of digital photos, but you’ll have to leave Facebook for such an analog experience.