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Article: On Doubletake. (art magazine)
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- March 1, 1998
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In 1936, when James Agee talked the editors of Fortune magazine into sending him south with photographer Walker Evans to report on the living conditions of sharecropper farmers - the collaboration that, five years and two publishers later, became their quixotic masterpiece, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - his friend and fellow poet in the Luce magazine empire, Robert Fitzgerald recounted, "He was stunned, exalted, scared dean through, and felt like impregnating every woman on the fifty-second floor." Agee thought he had convinced the plushest picture magazine of the day to advance the new vernacular form of the "documentary," with words and photographs on equal terms, to ...
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