https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/6025/Levitt1-Bergreen72.jpg 014e3c6dda7af18910be2e44df9c2a7b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Bergreen, Laurence Photograph Title Title of photograph James Agee Book Genre Biography Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Portraiture Photographer Photographer Levitt, Helen Designer Designer of book cover Etheredge, Nancy Notes Notes associated with the item Helen Levitt's casual portraits of James Agee are a fitting choice for the covers of Laurence Bergreen's biography of the writer and critic. Introduced by their mutual friend Walker Evans, Levitt and Agee went on to collaborate on two films: The Quiet One (1949) and In the Street (1952). Agee also wrote the memorable introductory essay for Ways of Seeing, Levitt's first book of photographs. In the front cover photo, Agee is seen leaning on the closed half of a double door, at once revealed and concealed. The relatively featureless left half of the picture provides a ready-made backdrop for the title text (For a Bantam paperback edition published in 1963, the left half of the image is eliminated altogether). In a formal sense, the image is curiously reminiscent of Edward (at the time he preferred 'Eduard') Steichen's 1898 self-portrait. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available E.P. Dutton and Company Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1984 Relation A related resource Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Title A name given to the resource James Agee: A life