An American Exodus (COVER IS A FACSIMILE)
Dorothea Lange
An American Exodus (COVER IS A FACSIMILE)
Photographs: Dorothea Lange
Text: Paul S. Taylor
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
158 pages
Year: 1939
Comments: Hardcover under facsimile dust jacket, 26 x 19,4cm, first edition, b&w photographs. In good condition, the last pages show traces of use and traces of humidity. RARE
in 1938, Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul Taylor began sorting through the stacks of photographs she had made documenting migrant farmworkers and homeless drought refugees. Their goal was to create a book that would reveal the human dimension of the crisis to the American people and, hopefully, prompt government relief. One of several books released in the late 1930s that made use of the Farm Security Administration photo archive, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion was innovative in several ways. Rather than tell the story from their own perspective, Lange and Taylor used direct quotes from the migrants themselves, which Lange had painstakingly collected in the field. Released as war tensions were building in Europe and Asia, An American Exodus was largely overlooked at the time. In the years since its publication, the book has gained power, presenting an iconic image of the Dust Bowl era that has shaped the way we think of those difficult years.
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