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Home Town.

Photographs by Farm Security Photographers. The Face of America [series].

Stock Code 111677

New York, Alliance Book Corporation, 1940

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Home Town comprises photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) by Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Edwin Rosskam, John Vachon, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post, Carl Mydans, selected by FSA editor Edwin Rosskam, paired with a series of essays by Sherwood Anderson reflecting on life in small American towns. It was published shortly before Anderson departed for Latin America on assignment for Reader's Digest, where he was also travelling as an unofficial goodwill ambassador for the U.S. State Department as the threat of war intensified for the United States.

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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Home Town.

[FSA] ANDERSON, Sherwood; Edwin Rosskam (editor).

Stock code: 111677

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