A Vision Shared. A Classic Portrait of America and Its People, 1935-1943. Hank O'Neal. Foreword by Bernarda Shahn. Afterword by Paul S. Taylor. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1976. 309 pp. Squarish folio. First edition. Cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket. Very fine condition in very fine dust jacket.
The best survey of the photographic work of The Farm Security Administration, with biographical, amply-illustrated sections on Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Jack Delano, John Collier, Marion Post Wolcott, Theo Jung, and John Vachon. "For eight years, from 1935 to 1942, a small group of photographers travelled the length and breath of the United States, under the auspices of an agency first known as the Resettlement Administration, then the Farm Security Administration and finally the Office of War Information....they compiled a unique photographic document, a shared vision of a nation and its people that will never be equalled....Recently, sparked by the interest of Hank O'Neal, the eleven original photographers (the deceased Ben Shahn and Dorothea Lange were represented by their spouses) gatd to select photographs they themselves wished to see published." The images are printed in high quality duotone by Rapoport Printing Corporation. Buyer pays for s/h.
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