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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families Paperback - 2001
by Walker Evans; James Agee
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Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic. 64 pages of photos.
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A landmark work of American photojournalism “renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality” (New York Times)
In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when, in 1941, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land and the rhythm of their lives, is intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and today—recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century—it stands as a poetic tract of its time. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue featuring archival reproductions of Evans's classic images, this historic edition offers readers a window into a remarkable slice of American history.
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It is late in a summer night, in a room of a house set deep and solitary in the country; all in this house save myself are sleeping; I sit at a table, facing a partition wall; and I am looking at a lighted coal-oil lamp which stands on the table close to the wall, and just beyond the sleeping of my relaxed left hand; with my right hand I am from time to time writing, with a soft pencil, into a school-child's composition book; but just now, I am entirely focused on the lamp, and light.
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- Title Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
- Author Walker Evans; James Agee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Mariner Book
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books Classics, Boston
- Publication date 2001-08-14
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618127498 / 0618127496
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: Alabama
- Category History - U.S.
- Library of Congress subjects Sharecroppers - Alabama, Agee, James - Journeys - Alabama
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88018110
- Dewey Decimal Code 976.1
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