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James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Dialectic of Documentary Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned . . . and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined ... to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is.
- James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Like most Americans during the 1930s, including many of his colleagues in Southern letters, James Agee was attracted to photography. In 1 936, a documentary project in rural Alabama with photographer Walker Evans confirmed Agee's interest in this newly pervasive art form. A powerful compilation of his literary depictions and Evans's photographs of tenant farmers at last appeared as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in 1941. Southern writers such as …
