In the spring of 1936, Walker was in Vicksburg Mississippi photographing for the Farm Security Administration. James R. Mellow, in his biography of Evans writes:
". . .Evans developed a vestigial affection for the southern landscape and he viewed his Vicksburg sojourn as a special one. Late in life, asked by a young southern writer and photographer, Bill Ferris, if he remembered Vicksburg, he remarked, 'Of course I remember Vicksburg. You know, to someone who hasn't been there before, it has a tremendous appeal to the eye. I can understand why Southerners are haunted by their own landscape and are in love with it."
Walker Evans photo is from the FSA collection at the Library of Congress - LC-USF342-001308-A
Vicksburg waterfront 2010 - photo by Allan Leese, copyright 2010.
Excerpt from Walker Evans by James R. Mellow, Basic Books, 1999
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