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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee,

Walker Evans

Discussion: Creativity and Art

Discussion leader: David J. Bookbinder

Why we're reading this: James Agee and Walker Evans' book of lyrical prose and hard-edged images was one of three books I brought…more
[close] James Agee and Walker Evans' book of lyrical prose and hard-edged images was one of three books I brought with me when I moved to NYC in 1974, and one of a short list that have a major influence on me as a young writer back then. This was the first book I'd encountered that looked and felt deeply about a group of people largely ignored by the rest of the country, and it directly influenced my own several-year project photographing and interviewing the people I encountered living or working the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn. I have yet to encounter anything that quite matches it in its powerful synergy of prose and photographs.

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James Agee and Walker Evans' book of lyrical prose and hard-edged images was one of three books I brought with me when I moved to NYC in 1974, and one of a short list that had a major influence on me as a young writer back then. This was the first book I'd encountered that looked and felt deeply about a group of people largely ignored by the rest of the country, and it directly influenced my own several-year project photographing and interviewing the people I encountered living or working the st ...more

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