Taken for Fortune magazine while Evans, on leave from the FSA, was traveling with the writer James Agee, this famous photograph shows a tenant farmer’s wife standing outside her house. With patient dignity, she looks straight at the viewer, a shy half-smile on her lips. This work is part of a remarkable collaboration with Agee published in the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). As one of the nation’s finest documentary photographers, Evans continued this exacting and lucid description of American culture throughout his career. [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/13720] Most importantly, much of Evans’ work speaks to bravery amidst great tribulations. “Certainly one gains from the work a sense of the enduring dignity of the human spirit,” says Abbott. [https://www.americanphotomag.com/walker-evans-retrospective-explores-rarely-seen-work#page-4]