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Walker Evans and James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Attraction Details
Walker Evans and James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
http://www.wmuseumaa.org
In 1936, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to document the daily lives of tenant families in the Deep South. They spent three weeks in Hale County, Alabama living with and recording the individuals and routines of three sharecropper families. The words and images they produced became the celebrated book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941. Intensely honest and moving, the book and its accompanying images have become a classic American account of rural poverty during the Depression. The exhibition includes 76 vintage prints by Evans supported by a selection of original letters and documents by Agee.

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211 North Main Street
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