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In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South - from South Carolina to Arkansas - to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You Have Seen their Faces, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass.

First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, which it preceded by more than three years.

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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Language
English
Pages
64

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Subjects

Economic aspects, Sharecropping, Sharecroppers, Agriculture, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Cotton growing, Farm tenancy, Economic aspects of Farm tenancy, Pictorial works, Farm life, united states, Southern states, social conditions

Places

Southern States

Times

1918-
Edition Availability
Cover of: You have seen their faces
You have seen their faces
1995, University of Georgia Press
in English
Cover of: You have seen their faces
You have seen their faces
1975, Arno Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: You have seen their faces
You have seen their faces
1937, The Viking press
Cover of: You have seen their faces
You have seen their faces
1937, Modern Age Books, inc.
in English

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Edition Notes

"Brown Thrasher books."
Originally published: New York : Modern Age Books, 1937.

Published in
Athens

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.33/5563
Library of Congress
HD1478.U62 A133 1995, HD1478.U62A133 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 54 p., [64] p. of plates :
Number of pages
64

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1110389M
ISBN 10
0820316911, 082031692X
LCCN
94036143
OCLC/WorldCat
31172869
Library Thing
283001
Goodreads
4403709
191579

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1164843W

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Work Description

Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White have combined their considerable talents to produce an incisive, sensitive statement about the relation between the poverty of the people and the depletion of the land in the Deep South. In a powerful and informal style, Erskine Caldwell explores the reasons behind the deterioration of what was once the land where cotton was king. And Margaret Bourke-White's superb photographs capture the essence of the day-to-day existence of the people in this land, which no words, however eloquent, can convey. - Back cover.

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