3 November
Born in 1903 – Walker Evans, American photographer and journalist.
Above: Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill, Pennsylvania, 1935
Also, born in 1901, French historian and theorist André Malraux.
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.