Cotton Tenants
Author | : James Agee |
Publisher | : Melville House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2013 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781612192123 |
ISBN-13 | : 1612192122 |
Rating | : 4/5 (122 Downloads) |
Download or read book Cotton Tenants written by James Agee and published by Melville House Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1936, James Agee set out with photographer Walker Evans on an assignment for Fortune magazine. Their mission was to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. The journey fostered an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when the resulting report was turned into a book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941. Agee's original dispatch, accompanied by 25 of Walker Evans' historic photos, is an unsparing record of place and of three families who worked the land at a desperate time.