Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0618127496 ISBN13: 9780618127498 Release Date: August 2001 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics Length: 432 Pages Weight: 1.70 lbs. Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9" Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (The 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 Libra