Monday, June 8, 2009

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

I finished reading James Agee's book yesterday. What a remarkable, profound work!

Agee's reportage on Alabama tenant farmers in 1936 is defiantly contrary, meandering, poetic, autobiographical, incendiary, angry, beautiful, sensitive, visionary, ugly, sometimes even funny.

Walker Evans' accompanying photographs give sad testimony to a text so detailed and comprehensive, the reader could - after reading this book - make his way through a tenant farmer's house blindfolded.

http://www.amazon.com/Let-Now-Praise-Famous-Men/dp/0618127496/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244511106&sr=1-1
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