| 1938 | North America • USA
| Walker Evans publishes American Photographs.
Walker Evans: American Photographs
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| 1938 | Europe • Great Britain
| Stephan Lorant founds the photographically illustrated Picture Post in the UK. The first issue comes out on 1 October 1938 (1 October 1938) |
| 1939 | North America • USA
| Berenice Abbott publishes Changing New York.
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| 1939 | North America • USA
| Dorothea Lange publishes An American Exodus with text by Paul Schuster Taylor (New York: Reynald Hitchcock, 1939). |
| 1939 | North America • USA | Retrospective of the documentary photography of Lewis Hine (1905 to 1938) at the Riverside Museum, N.Y. City (now the Nicholas Roerich Museum) organized by Elizabeth McCausland, Beaumont Newhall and Berenice Abbott with sponsors including Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Willard and Barbara Morgan. (January 1939) |
| 1941 | North America • USA
| Walker Evans and James Agee publish Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Three Tenant Families (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941). |
| 1943 | North America • USA | Weegee (Arthur Fellig) takes his famous photograph The Critic outside the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Published in LIFE magazine on 6 December 1943 it pushes his career forward. |
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