Dec 17, 2009
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the Depression-era photodocumentary masterpiece, originated in 1936 when James Agee, a writer, and Walker Evans, a photographer on leave from the Farm Security Administration, were commissioned by Fortune magazine to do an article on cotton tenantry that would be a photographic and verbal record of “the daily living of three representative white tenant families.” In the summer of 1936, Agee lived with a sharecropping family, intimately experiencing their daily routine, while Evans carried out his photographic assignment...
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