New York

1938

“Walker Evans: American Photographs” at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art in New York holds “Walker Evans: American Photographs”, the museum's first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer; the catalogue includes an essay by Lincoln Kirstein, whom Evans befriended in his early days in New York.

until 1938

The end of his FSA work

Evans continues to work for the Farm Security Administration until 1938.

1938–1939

Working with and mentoring Helen Levitt

In 1938 and 1939 Evans works with and mentors Helen Levitt.

1940 · Auszeichnung

Guggenheim Fellowship

1941

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” is published

Evans's photographs and Agee's text detailing the duo's stay with three white tenant families in southern Alabama during the Great Depression are published as the groundbreaking book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”. Its detailed account of three farming families paints a deeply moving portrait of rural poverty.

1945

A staff writer at Time

In 1945 Evans, a passionate reader and writer, becomes a staff writer at Time.