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Simon on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

December 11, 2011

A suburban boy’s father marks up his English essays, explaining both the wit and weaknesses of leading sentences with gerunds. He tells stories of fierce heroes, word warriors: Broun, who loved the street parade, and Pegler, who sat next to… Continue reading →

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From “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”, by James Agee & Walker Evans

December 9, 2011

“Every few minutes George would get up and open the door a foot or so, and it showed always the same picture: that end of the hallway mud and under water, where the planks lay flush to the ground: the… Continue reading →

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Agee on Ways of seeing

August 11, 2011

“In every other art which draws directly on the actual world, the actual is transformed by the artist’s creative intelligence, into a new and different kind of reality: aesthetic reality. In the kind of photography we are talking about here,… Continue reading →

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