An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty.
"An Annotated Edition of the James Agee--Walker Evans Classic, with Supplementary Manuscripts"--Cover
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.
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...
With an additional sixty-four archival photos in this edition, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men remains as relevant and important as when it was first published over seventy-seven years ago. “One of the most brutally revealing records of an ...
In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white sharecropper families....