What are we reading?

[Figure 8]

...and finally:

[Gold Trumpet]

I hate posting in these threads, but this book is a true original. Tough read as well:

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans

[Pubrick]

I hate posting in these threads, but this book is a true original. Tough read as well

the result of avoiding threads like this is the added weight given to when u do post.

apparently no library in my city has the book but i did manage to find these pics: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/gallery.html

the good and bad thing about books is that they hav to be purchased, or borrowed.. they hav to be held in hand. even if u could steal them online it woudln't be worth it.

[Gold Trumpet]

I hate posting in these threads, but this book is a true original. Tough read as well

the result of avoiding threads like this is the added weight given to when u do post.

apparently no library in my city has the book but i did manage to find these pics: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/gallery.html

The photographs are by Walker Evans. They encompass a good 80 pages of the beginning of the book. When James Agee is given reign to write about the three tenant families he stayed with, the first 100 pages is really poetry done to the form of a novel. Very lyrical and you can't just read it. You have to say every line out loud to digest the words.

I'm on the second part, which is over a hundred pages of description. Agee goes to brutal lengths to describe everything he sees, from detailing every area of the farm to listing all the items in the houses. He tries to encompass all the descriptions in sentences to get it to play like a regular book. Classification of the book is historical. Agee says he wanted to not be an artist but a recorder in the purist sense. He also was very much influenced by Joyce's Ulysses, which unlike any novel, tries to encompass as much in a day as humanely possible.

Also, there are interludes of pure poetry.

I'm trudging though, taking my time. Its hard not call this part difficult and almost unhappy reading. But when the book gets going, it really gets going. Its writing that is very intimidating.

[killafilm]

[MacGuffin]

[hedwig]

hey i've got that one, too. what are your thoughts on it?

[cron]

[Reinhold]

what is that?

[cron]

a book on the history of the  german design school and its downfall  thanks to the nazi regime. taschen commands  when it comes to this kind of books.

[hedwig]

[A Matter Of Chance]

[Reinhold]

[grand theft sparrow]

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