omparisons to another American artist, Walt Whitman. He knew his photos could be interpreted as social protest, yet he considered himself non-political and proclaimed he had no interest in improving the world through his photography the photos were simply "what's what," he said. Rather than seeing the Crash of 1929 as a indication of suffering, Evans and his useless downtown comrades cheered at the news that businessmen were throwing themselves out of windows, seeing in such tragedy confirmation that the business world was fundamentally corrupt. Even his job as an information specialist with Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration, an important agency in FDR's New Deal, was more a matter of opportunism than political idealism. Evans is very well known for his work
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