You Have Seen Their Faces
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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.
Today we tell about photographer Margaret Bourke-White, one of the leading news reporters of the twentieth century. A young woman is sitting on her knees on top of a large metal statue. She is not in a park. She is outside an office building high above
guardian.co.ukMikael Persbrandt and Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments But it's the closest perhaps to Jan Troell's film, whose heroine doesn't become a Margaret Cameron or a Margaret Bourke-White, but she finds through her camera a deeper understanding of her humble surroundings, provides a history for her family and