Main entry:

Agee, James, 1909-1955, author.

Title & Author:

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / James Agee, Walker Evans.

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.
Cambridge : The Riverside Press

Description:

xvi, 471 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm

Notes:
At head of title: Three tenant families.
"This volume is designed in two intentions: as the beginning of a larger piece of work; and to stand of itself, independent of any such further work as may be done ... The title of the work as a whole, this volume included, is 'Three tenant families'"--Preface.
"Photographs reproduced through the courtesy of Farm Security Administration, United States Department of Agriculture"--1st preliminary page.
Book one : preliminaries -- Book two: Verses -- Preamble -- All over Alabama -- July 1936. Late Sunday morning ; At the forks ; Near a church -- A country letter -- Colon -- Some findings and comments -- Money -- Shelter -- Clothing -- Education -- Work -- Conversation in the lobby -- Inductions -- Shady Grove, Alabama -- Two images -- Title statement -- Notes and appendices.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0395489016
9780395489017
0395488974
9780395488973
0395073308
9780395073308

Subject:

Agee, James, 1909-1955 Travel Alabama.
Agee, James, 1909-1955
Tenant farmers Alabama.
Tenant farmers Alabama Pictorial works.
Cotton farmers Alabama.
Cotton farmers Alabama Pictorial works.
Farm tenancy Alabama.
Sharecroppers Alabama Pictorial works.
Sharecroppers Alabama.
Métayers Alabama.
Métayers Alabama Ouvrages illustrés.
Producteurs de coton Alabama.
Producteurs de coton Alabama Ouvrages illustrés.
Baux ruraux Alabama.
Sharecroppers
Cotton farmers
Farm tenancy
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Tenant farmers
Travel
Alabama Social conditions.
Alabama Social conditions Pictorial works.
Alabama Rural conditions.
Alabama Rural conditions Pictorial works.
Alabama Description and travel.
Alabama Social history.
Alabama Conditions sociales.
Alabama Conditions sociales Ouvrages illustrés.
Alabama Conditions rurales.
Alabama Conditions rurales Ouvrages illustrés.
Alabama Descriptions et voyages.
Alabama

Form/genre:

rare books.
Pictorial works
Dust jackets (Binding) United States 1941.

Added entries:

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, photographer, author.
United States Massachusetts Cambridge.
Three tenant families.

At head of title: Three Tenant Families

Holdings:

Location: Library main 37695
Call No.: HN79.A4 A53 (ID:88-B8637)
Status: Available