biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1903–75)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. In 1933 he started as an architectural photographer, but from 1935 began to record social deprivation in the Southern states for the US government Farm Security Administration, the two themes being combined in his American Photographs (1938). He was associate editor of Fortune (1945–65), and professor of graphic design at Yale (1965–74). His work with the writer James Agee to document the lives of the share-croppers of the Deep South, eventually published as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), is considered to be one of the best writer–photographer collaborations. |
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