Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families Paperback - 2001

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.

Details

• 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
• 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)
• Themes
  • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Cultural Region: Deep South
  • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
  • Cultural Region: South
  • Demographic Orientation: Rural
  • Geographic Orientation: Alabama
• Library of Congress subjects Sharecroppers - Alabama, Agee, James - Journeys - Alabama
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 88018110
• Dewey Decimal Code 976.1