LANGE, Dorothea. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion . Text by Paul Taylor New York: Reynald Hitchcock, 1939. 4° (262 x 196mm). 112 black and white photographs. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (spine ends and corners chipped, a few tears).
LANGE, Dorothea. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion . Text by Paul Taylor New York: Reynald Hitchcock, 1939. 4° (262 x 196mm). 112 black and white photographs. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (spine ends and corners chipped, a few tears). FIRST EDITION. 'Of all the documentary photobooks stemming from the New Deal, and the FSA in particular, An American Exodus ... is the most considered. Not only does it have the closest integration of text and image, but the whole book was compiled with scrupulous attention to the presentation of facts, without either hyperbole or undue rhetoric' ( The Photobook ). 101 Books p.102-103; Auer, p.275; The Open Book , pp.132-33; The Photobook , vol. I, p.142; Regards à travers le livre 75.
LANGE, Dorothea. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion . Text by Paul Taylor New York: Reynald Hitchcock, 1939. 4° (262 x 196mm). 112 black and white photographs. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (spine ends and corners chipped, a few tears).
LANGE, Dorothea. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion . Text by Paul Taylor New York: Reynald Hitchcock, 1939. 4° (262 x 196mm). 112 black and white photographs. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (spine ends and corners chipped, a few tears). FIRST EDITION. 'Of all the documentary photobooks stemming from the New Deal, and the FSA in particular, An American Exodus ... is the most considered. Not only does it have the closest integration of text and image, but the whole book was compiled with scrupulous attention to the presentation of facts, without either hyperbole or undue rhetoric' ( The Photobook ). 101 Books p.102-103; Auer, p.275; The Open Book , pp.132-33; The Photobook , vol. I, p.142; Regards à travers le livre 75.
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