You Have Seen Their Faces

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Viking Press published the book You Have Seen Their Faces (OCLC 1548861) in 1937, by noted photographer Margaret Bourke White and novelist Erskine Caldwell, then husband and wife.

Contents

For this pictorial survey about rural American South and its troubles, Bronx-born Bourke-White took the pictures, while Georgia-born Caldwell wrote the text. Together, they both wrote captions:

Bourke-White lay in wait for her subjects with a flash, and wrote with pleasure of having them “imprisoned on a sheet of film before they knew what had happened.” The resulting portraits are by turns sentimental and grotesque, and she and Caldwell printed them with contrived first-person captions.^[1]

(The book's title is reminiscent of "Can You Make Out Their Voices?" (1931), an article by Whittaker Chambers in The New Masses, made into a popular play under the title "Can You Hear Their Voices?" by Hallie Flanagan, later director of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project.)

References

1. ^ Crain, Caleb (September 21, 2009). "It Happened One Decade". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/09/21/090921crbo_books_crain?currentPage=all. Retrieved September 22, 2009. 

External links

• Library of Congress
• Google Books
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Art Icono - photos by Margaret Bourke-White
• University of Virginia - photos by Margaret Bourke-White
• Monroe Gallery - photo by Margaret Bourke-White
• New Yorker - "It Happened One Decade" (September 21, 2009)

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