The Bridge by Hart Crane. He sees photographs by Eugene Atget who has a lasting influence on him. 1933 Photographic expedition to Havana during the political unrest in Cuba with the commission to provide illustrations for Carleton Beals's book The Crime of Cuba. Encounter with Ernest Hemingway. 1935 Photographic expedition to the Southern states.
Photographs architecture from the antebellum period, especially plantation houses.
The commission is from Fortune for a text-photo article on sharecroppers. Agee had requested Evans as photographer. Evans receives a temporary leave from his FSA job under the condition that the photographs become government property. Catalog with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. First photographs in the New York subway with a camera hidden in his coat.