Vision Shared, A : A Classic Portrait Of America And Its People 1935-1943]
by: O'Neal, Hank

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large square quarto; 309 pages; afterword; index; photographs in black and white (some full-page) on virtually every page; fine in ivory cloth; hinges tight; pages crisp and unmarked; in very good dust jacket, rubbed along top and bottom edges, and light chipping to corners. Classic survey of photographs made for the Farm Security Administration of the 1930's, a chronicle of small-town and rural America produced by 11 gifted photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn and Carl Mydans; O'Neal's text introduces each of the photographers, followed by generous samples of their work, many never before published, accompanied in most cases by each photographer's own commentary; with a concluding essay by O'Neal and an afterword by Paul S.Taylor, who as a young economist during the New Deal was involved with and gave strong support to the photographic work of his wife, Dorothea Lange.