YOU HAVE SEEN THEIR FACES
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White
Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White: YOU HAVE SEEN THEIR FACES. NYC: Modern Age Books, 1937. First paperback issue, after the Viking Press Cloth edition. A very good to near-fine softcover book in photographically-printed wrappers in a good dust jacket: DJ has tape-reinforcements to the chipped top edge. Book very solid and clean. Out-of-print and rare in dust jacket. 8.25 x 11.25 softcover book with 62 full-page photographs from Bourke-White. Originally published in 1937 as a impassioned plea against poverty and racism, an important political tract of WPA era photojournalism that ranks with James Agee & Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men .
Text by Erskine Caldwell and Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White of the Sharecroppers living in the Southern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee) at the time of the great depression. These are some of Miss Bourke-White's finest and most memorable photo-portraits -- presenting "man, and the intention of his soul." If you have not seen these faces, "there is much that you have yet to learn about America."
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