Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties
Language: English
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge LA, 1972
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bibliodisia Books (soon BookFort), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books (soon BookFort)
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A groundbreaking study of documentary photography in the Great Depression, with plates by the aforementioned and others documenting scenes made famous in such books as THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Book is fine and unmarked save for name stamp of the noted photographer Suchary on bottom foreedge. Jacket has minor edge rubbing and a small corner chip, and is price-clipped, but otherwise whole, clean and bright. Still attractive in its Mylar jacket cover.
Seller Inventory # P-23170
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties
- Author
- F. Jack Hurley,Walker Evans (Illustrator),Dorothea Lange (Illustrator),Ben Shahn (Illustrator)
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge LA
- Publication year
- 1972
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition.
Bibliodisia Books (soon BookFort)
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