- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: University of Georgia Press (Feb 1 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 082031692X
- ISBN-13: 978-0820316925
- Product Dimensions: 28.1 x 19.9 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,606,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"You Have Seen Their Faces contains some of the best work of both writer and photographer."--Current History
"I don't know that I've ever seen better photography. . . . Mr. Caldwell has done some of his finest writing for this book."--New York Times
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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.
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.
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an amazing depiction of Depression era Southern poverty in words and pictures, Dec 24 2011
By F. Orion Pozo "Orion Pozo" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: You Have Seen Their Faces (Paperback)
In the early years of the Great Depression, author Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent 18 months in the American Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee interviewing and photographing tenant farmers, commonly known as sharecroppers. This book, published in 1935 is the result of their work. Caldwell wrote about sharecroppers barely scraping a living from land drained of all fertility, the landlords who kept 10 million Southerners in economic slavery to produce cotton, and the politicians and ministers who supported the system rather than reform it. While he interviewed, Bourke-White sat quietly with camera ready to photograph them. It includes 75 mostly, full-page pictures taken by her that portray the destitute life of the tenant farming families. This is an amazing depiction of Southern poverty in words and pictures that I found very moving in spite of its age.
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An interesting testimony of a period in the south, July 8 2009
By A curious reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: You Have Seen Their Faces (Paperback)
A book is an interesting testimony of the poor people in the South in the 1930s. Some criticized it for making money from the fates of the poor, or for fabricating what people were saying on the photographs. Well, Calldwell said himself that people on the photos didn't say what he wrote and he warns the reader about that in the beginning. In my opinion some of the passages are really a bit too opinionated or maybe Caldwell tries to preach the reader. However, together with good photographs we get to know much about the plight of the poor tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the south, and also about the consequences of poverty and hunger. I recommend reading also some of Caldwell's novels or short stories: Tobacco Road, The God's Little Acre, Trouble In July.
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