James Agee and Walker Evans

In July and August 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans Fortune magazine invited James Agee and Walker Evans to study stories about tenant farmers. In the preface of "Let's praise celebrities right now," Agee explained it as "curious work." They will create an article on "US cotton lease in the form of photographs, average daily living of white tenant families and oral records of the environment" (IX). James Agee and Walker Evans wrote articles for the magazines and started shooting, and eventually tried the novel form.

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans began contributing to Fortune magazine to discuss the daily lives of tenant farmers in the south. Their journey was extraordinary collaboration and watershed literary events, and in 1941 I gave a wonderful comment for the first time, "Let's Praise Celebrities." People who formed this merciless local record, the land and the rhythm of their lives were considered by today's New York Public Library to be one of the most influential books of the 20th century and strong contact and ruthlessness It is honesty. . "At the time it was poetic, with an elegant new design and a 64-page photo prologue, an archive of the classic image of Evans was released This historical edition gives readers an important window to American history Provide a window to.

Poverty has plagued Appalachians for many years, but James Agy and Walker Evans published a book titled "Let's Praise Celebrities Now" to record the situation of the Appalachian family during the Great Depression It was until 1940 that I did it. It has not attracted attention in other parts of the United States. Text and Pictures In 1963, John F. Kennedy established the President 's Appalachian Regional Council. Hyn's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, clarified Kennedy 's efforts in the form of the Appalachian Regional Council passed by law in 1965.

The lyrical essays and clear images of James Agee and Walker Evans were one of the three books I brought when I moved to New York in 1974, and for me it was young. One of a short list of authors that have great influence. This was the first book I had ever met so far and directly influenced the direct impression of the group of people who were ignored by other people in the country. Or people working in the city of Manhattan and Brooklyn. There is nothing comparable to the strong synergy between the essay and the photograph.