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Walker Evans
American
1903–1975
November 3, 1903 |
Born
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Saint Louis |
September 1922–June 1923 |
Studies at Williams College for one year
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Williamstown |
1923–26 |
Works at a bookstore during the day and at The New York Public Library at night
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New York |
1926 |
Attends literary lectures at the Sorbonne, takes his first snapshots using a Kodak Vest Pocket camera, and works in Nadar's former studio
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Paris |
1927 |
Lives in New York; makes photographs of the city with a Leica
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New York |
1930 |
Publication of The Bridge; Evans's photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge illustrate Hart Crane's epic poem
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Paris |
1930 |
Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott meet
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New York |
1930 |
First solo exhibition, at the Harvard Society of Contemporary Arts
Participant: Walker Evans
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Cambridge |
November 1930 |
Photography 1930, organized by Lincoln Kerstein, at the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art
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Cambridge |
1931 |
Begins photographing Victorian architecture using a large-format camera
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Massachusetts |
April 18–May 8, 1931 |
Margaret Bourke-White, Ralph Steiner, Walker Evans: Photographs by Three Americans at John Becker Gallery
Participant: Margaret Bourke-White, Walker Evans
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New York |
1932 |
Exhibition of work by George Platt Lynes and Walker Evans at the Julien Levy Gallery
Participant: Walker Evans, George Platt Lynes
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New York |
1933 |
Walker Evans: Photographs of 19th Century Houses, the first monographic photography exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art
Participant: Walker Evans
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New York |
1935 |
Peter Sekaer becomes Walker Evans's assistant; they work on a portfolio of African sculpture photographs commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
1935–37 |
Works as a staff photographer for the Resettlement Administration
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Mississippi South Carolina Georgia |
1935–36 |
Walker Evans and Peter Sekaer photograph together during trips for the Resettlement Agency
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Tupelo Vicksburg Bethlehem Bessemer Birmingham Atlanta Baton Rouge New Orleans |
April 23–May 7, 1935 |
Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Manuel Alvarez Bravo at the Julien Levy Gallery
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New York |
July–August 1936 |
Photographs sharecropper families for a Fortune magazine collaborative-reportage piece with writer James Agee, which becomes the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in 1941
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Alabama |
December 7, 1936–January 17, 1937 |
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
March 17–April 18, 1937 |
Photography: 1839–1937, organized by Beaumont Newhall, at The Museum of Modern Art
Participant: Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl, Francis Bruguière, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Walker Evans, Florence Henri, André Kertész, George Platt Lynes, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Martin Munkácsi, Roger Parry, George H. Seeley, Peter Sekaer, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Maurice Tabard, Edward Weston, Jacques-André Boiffard, Robert Demachy
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New York |
September 28–November 18, 1938 |
Walker Evans: American Photographs at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
May 10–September 20, 1939 |
Art in Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
December 31, 1940–January 12, 1941 |
Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Aesthetics at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
1941 |
Completes the subway portraits with the aid of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and publishes them in the Cambridge Review
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Cambridge |
1943–45 |
Works as a staff writer for Time magazine
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New York |
1945–48 |
Works as a staff photographer for Fortune magazine
Contributor: Walker Evans
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New York |
June 20, 1945–June 23, 1946 |
The Museum Collection of Photographs at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
1947 |
Retrospective exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago
Participant: Walker Evans
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Chicago |
April 6–July 11, 1948 |
In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
1948–50 |
Apppointed Special Photographic Editor of Fortune magazine
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New York |
July 27–September 26, 1948 |
50 Photographs by 50 Photographers at The Museum of Modern Art
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New York |
1950–65 |
Works as associate editor of Fortune magazine
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New York |
1965–74 |
Professor of photography and graphic design in the School of Art and Architecture, Yale University; becomes Professor Emeritus in 1974
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New Haven |
April 10, 1975 |
Dies
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New Haven |