Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

I think that he started out, and so for the first thing I was always drawn to was the self-reflective nature of the work.

I always kind of see my interest in document photography coming from this rupture that happened with, uh, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

Um, and not so much actually Walker Evans, but more the text from James Agee and this sort of revealing of this, like, kind of narcissism and this like, you know, he's talking about these, these poor white sharecropper families, but he's also sexualizing them at the same time.

And I felt like there was a real honesty in that, and I think that about a lot of Larry Clark's work as well, obviously starting back with Tulsa, but even up to the way he interacts with the subjects of his films, the actors and the actresses of his films.

He was a very heavy drinker.

Uh, he wrote Let Us Now Praise Famous Men also.

Got you, yes.

Um, but yeah, his great work of fiction was published posthumously.