Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Analysis

In “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” the author James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans used both their abilities to attempt a recreation of the conditions for the reader to attempt to have a better understanding. They did this in such a way that James Agee said the pictures could stand independently from the text (Agee and Evans 87). Doing this causes the reader to refrain from making their own visualizations’ of what is being described in the text. Therefore, helps the reader get a clarified idea of the text; When the text and pictures collaborate with one-another. While the pictures stand on their own, pictures can’t stand independently from the text because they give a brief understanding of what the text is about, it helps clarify descriptions
The pictures before the text allows the reader to start realizing what the following text is generally going to be about. Even including the pictures gives the reader a sense of security since they have another resource to refer to during the process of reading the text for a visual explanation. Although, the photographs makes you create a visualization referring to them and not to something the reader may have a personal or can even relate to because that is not what the text and the photograph intend on. The pictures collaborate with the text in ways that make them a valuable and very reliable means in which the reader needs to have clarity on the meaning that the text is trying to portray. Skipping the pictures would cause the text to be much more difficult than ever intended even though the text was portrayed by the author as difficult and suggests to the reader that pausing to reflect on the text is much more than a suggestion, hinting that it’s more of a requirement (Agee and Evans