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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by James Agee and Walker Evans
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780618127498 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
'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 of the rhythm of their lives was called intensely moving and unrelentingly honest, and is \"renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality\" (New York Times). Today it stands as a poetic tract of its time, recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. With an elegant new design as well as a sixty-four-page photographic prologue of Evans\'s classic images, reproduced from archival negatives, this sixtieth anniversary edition reintroduces the legendary author and photographer to a new generation.'
Synopsis:
Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic. 64 pages of photos.
Synopsis:
This handsome new paperback edition of an American classic is an invaluable document of the human and religious meaning of the lives of sharecroppers in the impoverished South. It follows on the heels of a national exhibition of Evans's photographs, touring through 2001. 62-page photo insert.
About the Author
'James Agee (1909-1955) was a poet, screenwriter, and journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel A DEATH IN THE FAMILY.Walker Evans (1903-1976) is best known for his striking Depression-era photographs. Born in St. Louis, he began his photographic career at twenty-five. He served as an editor for both Fortune and Time and was a professor of graphic arts at Yale. His other books include American Photographs and Message from the Interior.'
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780618127498
- Subtitle:
- Three Tenant Families
- Foreword:
- Evans, Walker
- Foreword:
- Evans, Walker
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Mariner Books
- Location:
- Boston
- Subject:
- Literature
- Subject:
- United States - 20th Century
- Subject:
- United States - State & Local
- Subject:
- Social history
- Subject:
- Poverty
- Subject:
- Alabama
- Subject:
- Farm tenancy
- Subject:
- United States - State & Local - General
- Copyright:
- 2001
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series Volume:
- FPL-0122
- Publication Date:
- August 2001
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions:
- 9.04x6.36x1.26 in. 1.60 lbs.
