Recognizably let us now praise famous men its a different genre, it wasnt a book, it was a magazine. But also the third way impressive recent to do this project it was sort of easy because you know, it wasnt like we do now to go in and try to do a lot of guesswork. There were marks on every page of 92 i think total photocopied pages, is that right . And so there were 90, 150 or so marks but they were all fairly legible. So the editing process was really nothing more than just following agees instructions. So it was, it was, discover is not quite the right word but it was more a question of the mens could have been around, it was more of a question of what did we forget to ask about . So we remembered. So what you have your is the last word from james agee of what he wanted the manuscript to say . As a magazine article. Yes. Its got his own handwriting on there. God forbid i should edit james agee. [laughter] thank you very much. This has been wonderful. Chip simone, i want to thank you
At his request he provided with a documentary photographer she barely knew , a walker evans whose previous work in the self had drawn goodness. Moved the two of them spent two months in hale county with three different families and they produced by a magazine standards in the myth and powerful piece of work, at a 90 page page, 30,000 word manuscript and more than 50 images. For reasons that remain the subject of debate and speculation to this day Fortune Magazine never ran the manuscript. Five years later james agee and evans repurchased the manuscript into the 471 page book, now let us praise famous men which was published by a code mayor flynn who in mifflin five years after fortune turn down the manuscripts. It quickly with debt of print after selling only 600 copies. It won some praise but was criticized of the cacophonous and clashing styles of presentation the end indicted age 45 of a heart attack described as an alcoholic to smoker, serial merrier who lives a life of self neglec
In 1936, five years before they published famous men, james agee and photographer walter evans produced a article for Fortune Magazine titled cotton tenants. It was about three poor families and alabama looking through the Great Depression. The 30,000 word article and accompanying photos were never published by forging, but cotton tenants was discovered decades later in the collection of agees manuscript at the university of tennessee. During this event hosted by the jimmycarterlibrary. Org museum, editor john summers lead a Panel Discussion about the book and the workout james agee and walker evans. Welcome to the jimmy carter president ial library here in atlanta georgia. I am thrilled to be moderating this illustrious panel tonight. And i think we will begin by introducing the book that we are going to be talking about, cotton tenants. James agee, walter evans. After i introduced the book, i will introduce the guests and we will get started. And 1936, Fortune Magazine, which was a r
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