Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

AGEE, James & Walker Evans.

Item Number: 73878

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960.

First revised edition of “one of the great photography books of the 20th century” (Roth, 17). Octavo, original black, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. A very nice example.

Sent to Alabama in 1936 with photographer Walker Evans to write an article on tenant farming, Agee quickly became consumed with the subject, ultimately writing almost 500 pages to accompany Evans’ 31 disturbing and beautiful photographs. Agee’s sympathetic account and Evans’ remarkable photographs have made this one of the most famous and unforgettable depictions of rural poverty and one of the most admired works of our times. Roth, 108-09.