Cotton Tenants
Subtitle: Three Tenants
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brooklyn, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781612192123
Description: On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.