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
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nonfiction book ⓘ photo book ⓘ |
| aimedAt | raising awareness of rural poverty ⓘ |
| author |
Erskine Caldwell
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Margaret Bourke-White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
accompanying text
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black-and-white photographs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
poor tenant farmers
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sharecroppers ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary photography
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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
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controversial for use of fictionalized captions ⓘ |
| illustratedBy | Margaret Bourke-White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Great Depression in the United States
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rural poverty ⓘ tenant farmers in the American South ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration between a photographer and a novelist
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depiction of economic hardship in the American South ⓘ |
| photographer | Margaret Bourke-White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Viking Press
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surface form:
Viking Press
|
| relatedWork | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectLocation |
Alabama
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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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