Home Town

First Edition, First Printing. Very good in original cloth, stamped in green, and very good pictorial dust jacket. Some sunning to spine, as well as toning to endpapers; light wear and chipping to extremities of dust jacket. Text clean and bright, binding square and tight.

Published as part of The Face of America series, edited by Edwin Rosskam. In the small town, where everybody knows everybody's first name where everybody knows everybody's business, Sherwood Anderson sees the foundation and the test stone of democracy. The Farm Security Agency is well known for the influence of their photography program, 1935-1944. Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers. The Information Division of the FSA was responsible for providing educational materials and press information to the public. Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks were three of the most famous FSA alumni.

This portrait of small-town America is more nostalgic than investigative and features photographs by Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Marion Post, Russell Lee, John Vachon and Dorothea Lange. Quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. [iv], 145 + [3] pp. One of the best copies on the market of this classic work.