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Cotton Tenants: Three Families – James Agee, photographs by Walker Evans

In the summer of 1936 James Agee, then a staff writer for Fortune magazine, was commissioned to write an article on sharecroppers in Alabama.  He and Walker Evans, a staff photographer, spent two months observing three families, chronicling every aspect … Continue reading

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