Below the Line: Living Poor in America

RICHARDS, Eugene

ISBN 10: 0890430624 / ISBN 13: 9780890430620

Published by Consumer Reports Books, New York, 1987

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 218 pages. A powerful collection of black and white photographs by Richards paired with interviews of people who are living in poverty in America. A very near fine fine copy in black cloth boards with an International Center of Photography sticker from 1987 saying this was a winner of a Photojournalism Award, a tiny remainder dot to the bottom of the page edges and some slight very faint foxing to the page edges and in near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 205407

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Below the Line: Living Poor in America
• Publisher: Consumer Reports Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890430624
• ISBN 13: 9780890430620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 4.688 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Captures the extent of poverty in the United States, evoking such scenes as the hopelessness of urban youth and the struggle of midwestern farmers

From Publishers Weekly

In 144 stunning black-and-white photographs (which won the 1987 International Center of Photography Journalism Award for "outstanding accomplishment in photographic reportage") and 14 first-person narratives, this disturbing book demonstrates the pervasiveness of poverty in America. The starkly eloquent text, edited by Bird, conveys the bravery and pathos of the subjects' lives in their own words. For example, readers learn that a Tennessee man has to pull his own teeth because he can't afford a dentist and that migrant workers who pick vegetables are often brutalized. Help for the poor didn't come until How the Other Half Lives (1901) shocked the public a few generations ago; one hopes that this book will have the same effect.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.