Anon11/13/25, 08:45No.4482537
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0219/apix.html
>"I don't like smiles particularly, although if they smile, that's OK,'' he says from behind his desk. "I just don't generally encourage it.'' What he's after, he says, is "a pleasant picture. I like people with a pleasant expression, a little twinkle in the eye, a little spark.''
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-31-ca-18755-story.html
>“I wanted to fill in the blanks about the first four years of the Reagan Administration,” Evans said when asked why he didn’t use his off hours to photograph sports, nature or anything other than the ubiquitous men in suits that dominate his working days and his book’s pages. “After being at the White House for a while, I became aware of a whole stream of people whose hands were on the levers of power. The operation seemed like a giant Rube Goldberg machine on the banks of the Potomac.”
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-opening-the-michael-evans-portrait-exhibit-the-corcoran-gallery-art
>For the past 4 years Michael Evans has been our official White House photographer, snapping the parade of events at the Executive Mansion and traveling with us around the world. Mike has captured everything from Cabinet meetings to Easter egg rolls, and his thousands of pictures provide a full and fascinating record of the hard work, exhilaration, and pageantry of American government.
>And yet, in the course of his duties, Mike saw the need for another kind of record-one that would focus entirely on individuals. In these pictures there would be no seals of office, no shots of executives behind their desks or journalists at their typewriters. There would be no flags, no gardens, no tall, white pillars. Each subject would simply stand before a backdrop of plain gray. Michael would snap, and in the picture that resulted, nothing would matter but the individual—the way he or she stood, the way they held their hands, the look on his or her face.