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Author : Andrea Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Rivers Oram Press
Release Date : 1987
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women written by Andrea Fisher and has been published by Rivers Oram Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Results of a project of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information "to produce an encyclopedic record of American life through documentary photographs"--Back cover.
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Author : Frank Sikora
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2005-02-13
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women written by Frank Sikora and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The Helmses were uneducated, unpolished people, and Sikora's narration of his life with them - often humorous but never condescending - provides a compelling portrait of the attitudes and lifestyle of poor whites in Alabama during the second half of the 20th century. Sikora details how resourceful southern women, in particular, held their families together through trying times." "Interwoven with this commentary on rural white culture in the deep South is the story of Sikora's developing career as a newsman. Determined to succeed, he finally landed a job with the Gadsden Times reporting the news of black citizens. From that introduction to journalism, Sikora became one of Alabama's most acclaimed chroniclers of the civil rights movement."--Jacket.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Author : James Agee
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2001-08-14
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men written by James Agee and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-14 with Photography categories.
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 summer of 1936, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans set out on assignment for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of white sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration—and a watershed literary event. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men was published to enormous critical acclaim. An unsparing record in words and pictures of this place, the people who shaped the land, and the rhythm of their lives, it would eventually be recognized by the New York Public Library as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century—and serve as an inspiration to artists from composer Aaron Copland to David Simon, creator of The Wire. With an additional sixty-four archival photos in this edition, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men remains as relevant and important as when it was first published over seventy-seven years ago. “One of the most brutally revealing records of an America that was ignored by society—a class of people whose level of poverty left them as spiritually, mentally, and physically worn as the land on which they toiled. Time has done nothing to decrease this book’s power.” —Library Journal
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Author : James Agee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men written by James Agee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Alabama categories.
An account of the actual daily lives of three families of tenant farmers which are representative of their class in the year 1936.
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Author : Andrea Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Rivers Oram Press
Release Date : 1987
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women written by Andrea Fisher and has been published by Rivers Oram Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Results of a project of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information "to produce an encyclopedic record of American life through documentary photographs"--Back cover.
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Author : Richard C. Schneider
language : en
Publisher: R. Schneider
Release Date : 1987
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women written by Richard C. Schneider and has been published by R. Schneider this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.
Cotton Tenants
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Author : James Agee
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2013-06-04
Cotton Tenants written by James Agee and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-04 with History categories.
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 Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the “most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.” The origins of Agee and Evans’s famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune’s editors shelved the story because of the unconventional style that marked Famous Men, and for years the original report was presumed lost. But fifty years after Agee’s death, a trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled “Cotton Tenants.” Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune. Published here for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans’s historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee’s dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an introduction, it is “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice.”
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
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Author : Paul S. Sutter
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies written by Paul S. Sutter and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with History categories.
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.
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Author : Liz Wells
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Photography written by Liz Wells and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
This seminal text for photography students identifies key debates in photographic theory, stimulates discussion and evaluation of the critical use of photographic images and ways of seeing. This new edition retains the thematic structure and text features of its predecessors but also expands coverage on photojournalism, digital imaging techniques, race and colonialism. The content is updated with additional international and contemporary examples and images throughout and the inclusion of colour photos. Features of this new edition include: *Key concepts and short biographies of major thinkers *Updated international and contemporary case studies and examples *A full glossary of terms, a comprehensive bibliography *Resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites
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Author : Paul S. Sutter
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies written by Paul S. Sutter and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with History categories.
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters attempted to have Providence Canyon protected as a national park, insisting that it was natural. At the same time, national and international soil experts and other environmental reformers used Providence Canyon as the apotheosis of human, and particularly southern, land abuse. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the South and to highlight the role that the region and its erosive agricultural history played in the rise of soil science and soil conservation in America. More than that, though, the book is a meditation on the ways in which our persistent mental habit of separating nature from culture has stunted our ability to appreciate places like Providence Canyon and to understand the larger history of American conservation.