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 fami…
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Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty.
The American classic, in words and photographs, of three tenant families in the deep South. Published nearly sixty years ago, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men stands as an undisputed American masterpiece, taking its place alongside works by Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and …
"Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South"
An illustrated portrayal of three Alabama sharecropper families in 1936 examines their everyday existence in poverty.
Discusses the rural conditions of Alabama in the first half fo the 19th century by following the lives of three tenant families.
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
Words and photographs describe the daily lives of typical sharecropper families in the American South.
The American classic, in words and photographs, of three tenant families in the deep South. Published nearly sixty years ago, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men stands as an undisputed American masterpiece, taking its place alongside works by Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and …
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…
