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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
Author: James Agee (American, 1909–1955)
Illustrated by: Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (American, founded in 1880)
Printer: Riverside Press (American, founded in 1852)
Illustrated by: Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (American, founded in 1880)
Printer: Riverside Press (American, founded in 1852)
1960
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 62 photomechanical halftones
Dimensions
Overall: 21.7 x 15 x 4 cm (8 9/16 x 5 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carl Zahn
Accession Number2009.5377
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Photography
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960
Catalogue Raisonné
Parr & Badger, Photobook, v. 1, p. 144
Description(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960) Quarto; xxii, 471 pp., plus plates; original publisher's silver-stamped black cloth, original printed dust jacket.
Photographs of Alabama tenant farmers and their families.
Photographs of Alabama tenant farmers and their families.
ProvenanceABE Books dealer (online dealer); by 2007, purchased by Carl F. Zahn, Boston, MA; 2009, year-end gift of Carl Zahn to the MFA Boston. (Accession Date: January 20, 2010)
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