Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans)
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (photographs by Walker Evans) is a landmark collection of documentary images depicting impoverished tenant farmers in the American South during the Great Depression, created to accompany James Agee’s influential text of the same name.
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| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (text by James Agee) | 1 |
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documentary photography
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photographic work ⓘ |
| aim | to document conditions of poor tenant farmers ⓘ |
| archivalPresence | major museum photography collections ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
class inequality
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human dignity in poverty ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
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Farm Security Administration photographs
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States
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| creator | Walker Evans ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | landmark of American documentary tradition ⓘ |
| depicts |
Southern United States
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American South
impoverished rural families ⓘ tenant farmers ⓘ |
| depictsPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| documentationType | visual ethnography ⓘ |
| documentedBy | James Agee (text) ⓘ |
| ethicalApproach | non-sensational depiction of poverty ⓘ |
| genre |
photojournalism
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social documentary photography ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfAccompanyingText | James Agee ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | American visual culture of the 20th century ⓘ |
| hasPhotographer | Walker Evans ⓘ |
| hasTitleInWork |
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| historicalContext |
New Deal
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New Deal era
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| influenced | later documentary photographers ⓘ |
| languageOfAccompanyingText | English ⓘ |
| locationDepicted | Alabama ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white photography ⓘ |
| movement | American documentary movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration with James Agee
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influence on documentary photography ⓘ intimate portrayal of tenant farmers ⓘ |
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| portrays |
daily life of tenant farmers
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domestic interiors ⓘ material possessions of poor families ⓘ rural landscapes ⓘ |
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| style |
straight photography
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unembellished realism ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
rural poverty
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sharecropping ⓘ tenant farming ⓘ |
| timeOfCreation | 1930s ⓘ |
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