Home Town.
Photographs by Farm Security Photographers. The Face of America [series].
New York, Alliance Book Corporation, 1940
Edwin Rosskam began working for Roy Stryker as a visual aid specialist in 1938, designing layouts for the Farm Security Administration and making photographs for Stryker's Standard Oil project. The following year, he made another book using FSA photographs, 12 Million Black Voices (1941) with Richard Wright.
First edition; 8vo (255 x 174 mm, 10 x 6¾ in); black-and-white photographs by FSA photographers printed in gravure, note about the photographs by Edwin Rosskam, production crease to one leaf; cream endpapers with light toning at gutter, light blue cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in green on spine and upper side, lightly faded with spotting along joints, photo-illustrated yellow dust-jacket, printed in green and black, light wear to extremities, tiny chips to head and foot of spine, short tear to bottom edge upper panel and upper spinefold, shallow crease to spine, small bookselller's label to front free endpaper, near-fine; [iv], 145, [3]pp.
Photographers of the FSA P2.
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