Cotton tenants: three families
by Agee, James
On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
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- Full title :Cotton tenants : three families / James Agee ; [photographs by] Walker Evans ; edited by John Summers ; preface by Adam Haslett.
Summary
On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Melville House
- Place of Publication:Brooklyn, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:224 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781612192123, 1612192122
- oclc:ocn813931047
- LC Classification:HN79.A4
- Dewey Decimal:976.143062
Table of Contents
Business -- Shelter -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Picking season -- Education -- Leisure -- Health -- Appendix 1. On Negroes -- Appendix 2. Landowners.
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