James Agee
Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with Walker Evans's photographs, is one of the great American works of documentary art, a meditation on the lives of sharecropper families in Depression Alabama that questioned the very premises of documentary journalism.
Works
- A Death in the FamilyLyrical novel about a father's fatal accident and its emotional aftermath in a Southern family
- Let Us Now Praise Famous MenPhoto essay documenting the lives of Alabama sharecroppers during the Great Depression
- The Morning WatchNovel following three boys' spiritual crisis during a religious retreat in the American South
- A Way of SeeingCollection of essays and photographs exploring vision, art, and the human condition
- Agee on FilmEssays and reviews on cinema and filmmaking from a writer-journalist perspective
- Collected Short ProseAnthology of short prose pieces ranging from personal reflections to literary fragments