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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Book 1941 (begun in 1936) by US writer James Agee and US photographer Walker Evans. Agee's impressionistic prose and Evans' stark pictures record the dignified poverty of three Southern white cotton farmers during the Depression. It is a unique work of social documentary.



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But the exchange that resulted in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men can be viewed as putting an end to any such wariness on Rauschenberg's part.
No less an icon than Andy Warhol paid tribute to Rauschenberg as far back as 1963 with a series of silkscreen paintings using photographs of his handsome face playfully entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to Mitchell, James Agee and Walker Evans come to the conclusion in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men that it is impossible to see the people who are captured in image and word.
 
 
 
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