The Pompidou Centre in Paris presented in May 2017 the first European exhibition devoted to US photographer Walker Evans. Not a photojournalist but principally a maker of informal portraits, Walker depicted working class life and the vernacular scene in a starkly realist style drawn from the examples of Andre Kertesz and August Sander. This is not the exhibition catalogue, but an album of some of the most striking images from the show, arranged by theme. Well reproduced, the images are a useful introduction to Evans' work, which tends to leave you with an uneasy sense of resilience in the face of adversity.