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

Before I respond to the reading I would like to share a few things about the documentary we watched that went along with this book. The documentary was paralleled to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men to more recent times, and by recent I mean the 80's.
It made me realize that no matter where in the world you are, people share similarities. For example, the poor in this country share many of the same experiences as the poor from a country in Eastern Europe. (I say Eastern Europe, because I have been and experienced that sort of life in some ways, first hand.) The same goes for middle and upper classes.
In class we were asked why there was a photographer and a journalist working together on this. I responded with something along the lines of, "Two minds work better together and with four eyes, you can see more things together. You each have different perspectives on things too. It's interesting to share your experiences through different means, in this case, photography and writing."
Anyway, the first thing that intrigued me before even starting to read the passages assigned, was the way the book is laid out. The images went in the very front of the book and the text followed after the last image. This is how I tend to lay things out for my own blog, but I sometimes add captions to each image.
I found it extremely difficult to read it, because many times I was lost in a sea of words. The way it is written confused me. I, myself, don't think am a great writer, in fact, I think I need a lot of improvement, but the way he used punctuation made me need to reread everything at least 5 times before understanding what he was trying to say. There was also far too much detail which sometimes made me bored, so I'd skim over it instead.
To give you an idea of his writing:

Found on page 6.

Towards the end of the first chapter before he starts to talk about the people in the book, I question his sanity.

The way he described the people (physically) was mildly disturbing. It was mostly about how he saw the women, which personally bothered me. If you are going to describe people, describe men, women and everything in between, not just one gender. I didn't like how after all of that he says, "I am only human."
Something I didn't fully understand was why he was trying to tell their story through "their eyes" rather than his own point of view. While I understand that it would be more accurate in some sense, I kind of wish it was more so from his point of view.  Something I kept wondering about is when (what time of day/night) he would write about all of this.
Overall, I see his writing very journal like. He just writes without stopping to think about his writing style and where punctuation needs to be put in. He doesn't seem to care for starting a new sentence. There's an awful lot of run-on sentences. Thank God I am not an English major or I might have gone crazy.