Chronology

1803:Born in St Louis, Missouri
1908:Family moves to Kenilworth, Illinois
1914:Family moves to Toledo, Ohio
1922:Attends Williams college. Leaves in 1923
1924:Works in the map room of the New York Public library. Begins to write short stories
1926:Leaves NY for France
1927:Returns to the US
1928:Moves to Brooklyn Heights.
1930:Brooklyn Bridge pictures appear in hart crane's poem the bridge. Photographs appear in the magazines..
1931:Photographs Victorian houses for a project by Lincoln Kirstein and John Wheelwright.
1932:Photographs Cuba for the book the crime of Cuba. Photographs of achitecture from the Kirstein/Wheelwright project appear at the Museum of Modern Art.
1934:Commissioned for a book on architecture of the South and New Orleans. Meets Jane Smith Ninas in New Orleans.
1935:Appointed assistant specialist in information for the Resettlement Administration.
1936:Assigned with the writer James Agee for a Fortune article on white tenant farmers in the south
1937:Loses his appointment at the resettlement Administration.
1938:First one-person photography show at museum of modern Art. The Book American photographs is published with the exhibition.
1938:Begins subway portraits series.
1939:Jane moves to New York.
1941:Wins a Guggenheim foundation fellowship.
1941:Let Us Praise Famous Men is published.
1941:Marries Jane.
1941:Photographs Florida for the book the Mangrove Coast.
1942:Hired by Time Magazine as a movie and art critic.
1945:Becomes the Photography editor for fortune.
1947:Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago.
1956:Jane leaves
1959:Wins Second Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1960:Marries Isabelle Boeschenstein
1965:Hired to teach photography at Yale University
1966:Subway portraits are published as Many are called.
1966:Small retrospective of Work is shown at the Schoelkopf Gallery, New York.
1968:Awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Williams College.
1971:Second Major retrospective, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974: Recieves the Nationel institute of arts and letters award for Distinguished Service to the arts.
1975:Dies on April 10 after returning from a lecure in Boston
2000:Third Major retrospective, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.