Author: VACHON, John - Miles ORVELLL [Ed.]
Title: John Vachon's America - Photographs and letters from the Depression to World War II. Edited, with Introductory Texts, by Miles Ortvell.
Description: Berkeley / Los Angeles / London, University of California Press, 2003. 25 x 22.5 cm. x,344 pp. Clothbound wiht dustjacket. Illustrated in b/w. - From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon (1914-1975) traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance - from stoic determination to strikes. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a stirring and elegant record of this extraordinary photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. - [Flap] - Good/fine copy

Keywords: 9780520223783


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