Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents the lives of impoverished sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Although it is in keeping with Evans' work with the Farm Security Administration, the project was initiated not by the FSA, but by Fortune Magazine. The title is from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach (44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us".
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans, first published in 1941 in the United States. The work documents the lives of impoverished sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Although it is in keeping with Evans' work with the Farm Security Administration, the project was initiated not by the FSA, but by Fortune Magazine. The title is from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach (44:1) that begins, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us".
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Preisen will ich die großen Mä ...... unsere Väter, die uns zeugten.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men i ...... nd our fathers that begat us".
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Louons maintenant les grands h ...... e consacrer à la photographie.
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Preisen will ich die großen Mä ...... unsere Väter, die uns zeugten.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Louons maintenant les grands hommes
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Preisen will ich die großen Männer
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