Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee and Walker Evans
Essays
James Mustich
Jul 28, 2018
In the summer of 1936, Fortune magazine commissioned James Agee and Walker Evans to report on the lives of sharecroppers in the Deep South. Agee was a twenty-six-year-old journalist who’d published a volume of poems two years earlier; Evans was a thirty-two-year-old photographer. The assignment took them to Hale County, Alabama, where they spent eight weeks with three families of tenant farmers. Fortune chose not to run the article that resulted from Agee’s and Evans’s two-month stay, but in 1941 a more significant record of their collaboration finally saw the light: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a landmark volume of photographs and prose that has since been recognized as one of the most remarkable books of the twentieth century.
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James O'Doherty
Feb 23, 2019
Hard work but worthy and important subject
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Leslie Maxwell
Jun 3, 2020
yes
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Erik Morris
Aug 30, 2021
I knew I was not terribly worldly when I entered college, but I entered a world I never imagined when I opened the pages of this book my freshman year.
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Carol Ann Weaver
Dec 26, 2022
It took me four tries to read this,but listening to it made all the difference. I am a believer now.
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