Ben Shahn Photographer: An Album from the Thirties, Margaret R. Weiss, Da Capo Press, New York, 1973, VG, HC

Weiss, Margaret R. New York. DA Capo Press. 1973.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to 8 1/2" x 10 1/2," 176 unnumbered pages

ISBN:0306713128

Near fine grey cloth over board, silver gilt lettering to cover and spine. Minor sunning to text block otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Illustrated endpapers featuring Cotton Picker. Replete with black-and-white images. 176 unnumbered pages, 82 black-and-white full-page images. Very good white dust jacket featuring photographs by the artist. Minor soiling and shelf-wear to covers, small closed tears to top edges. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Text in English. 

Ben Shahn is an American artist and photographer who had a deep affection for American workers, immigrants, and disenfranchised communities, and often expressed abhorrence for injustice and oppression. This is the first collection devoted exclusively to Shahn's photographs and contains a careful selection of some of Shahn's finest efforts in the medium along with an introductory essay that outlines the development of Shahn's interest in photography. All the photographs selected for this volume were taken during the 1930s for Rod Stryker's great Farm Security Administration project to establish a visual record of life and culture in rural America.