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- Title
James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Dialectic of Documentary Representation in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
- Authors
Millichap, Joseph
- Abstract
This essay discusses the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," which was a collaboration between author James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, who documented life in Hale County, Alabama during 1936. The relationship between Agee and Evans, the pair met through their mutual friend the author Hart Crane, is discussed. The connection between the photographs that Evans took and Agee's text is considered, particularly comments by Agee that the two are not necessarily connected to each other. Consideration is given to Evans' arrangement of the photographs in the book and two earlier notebooks that predate the published edition. Other topics include modernist poetry, documentary photography, the poet William Carlos Williams, and Book Two of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
- Subjects
HALE County (Ala.); ALABAMA; UNITED States; LET Us Now Praise Famous Men (Book : Agee); AGEE, James, 1909-1955; EVANS, Walker, 1903-1975; DOCUMENTARY photography; WILLIAMS, William Carlos, 1883-1963; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Southern Quarterly, 2010, Vol 48, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0038-4496
- Publication type
Essay