[Leica] Cotton Tenants

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

On amazon.com in Kindle format for less than $10. Thanks for the heads up,
Phil.

Jeffery

On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote:

> Probably most Luggers are familiar with the iconic book "Let Us Now
> Praise Famous Men," the depression-era chronicle of southern poverty,
> by Walker Evans and James Agee. The photos by Evans are among his best
> known, but Agee's dense text could be a challenge to some readers. The
> back story here is that Fortune magazine, who funded the project,
> decided against using Agee's original reportage and the piece never
> appeared in the mag. The book was the eventual result.
>
> But what happened to the original manuscript?  It apparently
> disappeared after Agee's early death at age 45, but surprisingly
> turned up in 2003, when Agee's old residence was cleaned out by one of
> his daughters, and was finally published last year by Melville House
> as "Cotton Tenants."  I recently received it as a gift and am finding
> it to be a fascinating read. In stylish prose, Agee details much of
> the daily lives of the three families featured in "Famous Men" in a
> way that really augments Evans' pictures.  Just to be clear, the
> writing in "Cotton Tenants" is completely different from the text of
> "Famous Men."
>
> More here: http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/cotton-tenants/
>
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> Sent from my iPad
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Jeffery L. Smith
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