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For the off-road and NASCAR driver, see Walker Evans (racer) . Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression . Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a book with text by American writer James Agee and photographs by American photographer Walker Evans first published in 1941 in the United States. The title is from a passage in the Wisdom of Sirach that begins, " Let us now praise famous men , and our fathers that begat us." Walker Evans photograph of 3 sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, Summer 1936 The book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment the two men accepted in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions among white sharecropper families in the U.S.