In the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans, on assignment for "Fortune" magazine, went to central Alabama to document the lives of three white sharecropper families. Agee's editors killed the article, and after a torturous five-year struggle to do artistic justice to the material, the author finally published it in book form as "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," only to see it sink with barely a ripple. The posthumous revival of Agee's literary fortunes led to the work's…Show more