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by Walker Evans (American, 1903Š1975) Gelatin silver print Museum Purchase This photograph, and others in this exhibition, were taken by Evans while on assignment for Fortune magazine with his good friend, writer James Agee. FSA director Roy Stryker allowed Evans to take a leave from the government project with the stipulation that all the photographs taken with Agee would become property of the FSA. Agee and Evans spent several weeks in Alabama during 1936 living with three tenant families to document their lives. The results of their efforts was the 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book remained unpublished for five years after it was finished, due to Agee and EvansÕs insistence that it remain relatively unedited. Not critically or commercially well received until decades after its publication, the book is now considered a classic. |
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