This portrait of poverty-stricken Southern tenant farmers during the Great Depression has become one of the most influential books of the past century. In the s

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famou

Examines the lives, fifty years later, of the Alabama families profiled in Agee and Walker's book about tenant farmers in the Depression, describing the impact

Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the boo

An examination of one of Walker Evans's iconic photographs of the Great Depression. Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly