Lange's classic on the Dust Bowl, first edition in jacket
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Author: Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor
Title: An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Reynal & Hitchcock
Date Published: [1939]
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158 pp. Illustrated throughout from the b&w photographs of Dorothea Lange. 25.5x19 cm (10x7½"), blue cloth stamped in gold, photo-pictorial jacket. First Edition.
Classic photobook of the 1930's published in the same year as John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. The book was a powerful partnership between photographer Dorothea Lange and her second husband Paul Taylor, agricultural economist at UC Berkeley. Like Steinbeck's great novel, An American Exodus highlights the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the land. It documents how industrial farm practices contributed to the Dust Bowl's soil erosion which in turn uprooted the farmers in a "human erosion".
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Author: Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor
Title: An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Reynal & Hitchcock
Date Published: [1939]
Description:
158 pp. Illustrated throughout from the b&w photographs of Dorothea Lange. 25.5x19 cm (10x7½"), blue cloth stamped in gold, photo-pictorial jacket. First Edition.
Classic photobook of the 1930's published in the same year as John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. The book was a powerful partnership between photographer Dorothea Lange and her second husband Paul Taylor, agricultural economist at UC Berkeley. Like Steinbeck's great novel, An American Exodus highlights the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the land. It documents how industrial farm practices contributed to the Dust Bowl's soil erosion which in turn uprooted the farmers in a "human erosion".
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