| 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) |
| 1938 | North America • USA
| Walker Evans publishes American Photographs.
Walker Evans: American Photographs
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| 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. |
| 1944 | Europe • France
| During the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) Robert Capa photographs the landings at Omaha Beach. He exposes 106 frames of the heavily laden troops at they struggle past the steel landing craft obstructions before wading to an LCI (landing craft, infantry) to return to England with the first photographs of the invasion. All but eleven blurry images remain after the films are overheated when drying. (6 June 1944) [Read about] |
| 1945 | Asia • Japan
| Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. The tail gunner of the Enola Gay, Sgt. George R. Caron, took a roll of film of the detonation. (6 August 1945) [Read about] |
| 1945 | Asia • Japan
| Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in Japan. (9 August 1945) |
| 1945 | North America • USA | LIFE in the USA runs the Holocaust photographs taken at Buchenwald in April 1945 by Lee Miller with the statement "Dead men will have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them." (7 May 1945) |
| 1945 | Europe • Germany
| Yevgeny Khaldei photographs the placing of a Soviet flag on the Reichstag in Berlin showing that the European phase of the Second World War is nearly over. (2 May 1945) [Read about]
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| 1945 | North America • USA
| V-J Day ended the hostilities of the Second World War and was a time of celebrations for the Allies. The photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt catches the atmosphere of the occasion when anybody could kiss anybody and get away with it. The photograph is fascinating because of the numbers of people who claimed to be the sailor or the nurse involved to learn more about it go to http://time.com/3517476/v-j-day-1945-a-nation-lets-loose/ (14 August 1945) [Read about] |
| 1945 | Asia • Iwo Jima
| Joe Rosenthal takes the photograph of the Flag raising on Iwo Jima showing six marines putting up a large flag on Mount Suribachi. It quickly becomes one of the iconic American war photographs.
A feature film Flags of Our Fathers (2006) , directed by Clint Eastwood, retells the story. (23 February 1945) [Read about] |
| 1945 | North America • USA
| Weegee (Arthur Fellig) publishes Naked City.
Naked City (A Da Capo Paperback)
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| 1945 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Jindrich Styrsky and Jindrich Heisler publish Na jehlach techto dni [On the Needles of these Days]. |
| 1945 | North America • USA
| André Kertész publishes Day of Paris. |
| 1945 | North America • USA
| Alexey Brodovitch publishes Ballet (New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945). |
| 1946 | North America • USA | Wright Morris publishes The Inhabitants. |
| 1946 | Europe • Czechoslovakia
| Zdenek Tmej publishes Abeceda: Duevního Prázdna [Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness] |
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