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<p><p>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 <i>You Have Seen Their Faces</i>, a graphic portrayal of America's desperately poor rural underclass. First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's <i>How the Other Half Lives</i>, and James Agee and Walker Evans's <i>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</i>, which it preceded by more than three years.<p>Caldwell lets the poor speak for themselves. Supported by his commentary, they tell how the tenant system exploited whites and blacks alike and fostered animosity between them. Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the shacks where they lived, the depleted fields where they plowed, and the churches where they worshipped.<p></p>

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Author
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White
Publisher
Athens: University of Georgia Press
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780820316918
Category
history
Subjects
Economics, Fiction, Management
Rating
3.65 / 5 (72 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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