Walker EvansÉtats-Unis, 1903–1975Untitled (Subway Portrait)
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Elle ne reçoit pas en ce moment
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, États-Unis
Elle appartient à la collection, mais n’est pas présentée en ce moment.
- Vérifié
- Dans cet état depuis
- Source
- Le musée
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1999.928
Au catalogue
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image : Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
Pendant ce temps, chez Walker Evans
La vie entière1938
“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 · Distinction
Guggenheim Fellowship
1940–1959
Three Guggenheim Fellowships in twenty years
Between 1940 and 1959 Evans is awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in Photography to continue his work of making record photographs of contemporary American subjects.
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.
