You Have Seen Their Faces

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You Have Seen Their Faces is a 1937 documentary photobook by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell depicting the lives and hardships of poor tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf documentary photobook
nonfiction book
photo book
aimedAt raising awareness of rural poverty
author Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED
Margaret Bourke-White NERFINISHED
contains accompanying text
black-and-white photographs
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts poor tenant farmers
sharecroppers
genre documentary photography
photojournalism
social documentary
hasCaptionStyle first-person voice attributed to subjects
hasFormat hardcover
hasPageCount approximately 150 pages
hasPerspective outsider view of the American South
hasPhotographicStyle social realism
hasReputation classic of documentary photography
controversial for use of fictionalized captions
illustratedBy Margaret Bourke-White NERFINISHED
influencedBy Great Depression NERFINISHED
language English
mainSubject Great Depression in the United States NERFINISHED
rural poverty
tenant farmers in the American South
mediaType print
notableFor collaboration between a photographer and a novelist
depiction of economic hardship in the American South
photographer Margaret Bourke-White NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1937
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
relatedWork Let Us Now Praise Famous Men NERFINISHED
setting American South NERFINISHED
subjectLocation Alabama NERFINISHED
Arkansas NERFINISHED
Georgia NERFINISHED
Louisiana NERFINISHED
Mississippi NERFINISHED
North Carolina NERFINISHED
South Carolina NERFINISHED
timePeriod Great Depression NERFINISHED
uses staged or directed photographs in some images
writer Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED
writtenBy Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED

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Margaret Bourke-White notablePublication You Have Seen Their Faces