Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Name: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Author: James Agee

by James Agee

Photo essay documenting the lives of Alabama sharecroppers during the Great Depression

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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.

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