America & Lewis Hine. Photographs 1904 1940. Foreword by Walter Rosenblum. Biographical Notes by Naomi Rosenblum. Essay by Alan Trachtenberg. Design by Marvin Israel

Millerton, New York, Aperture, In-4° oblungo, pp. 144, tela editoriale con sovraccoperta fotografica. Interamente illustrato con fotografie in b.n. di Hine a p. pag. Perfetto stato. Prima edizione. Volume pubblicato in contemporanea alla mostra svoltasi al Brooklyn Museum dal marzo al maggio 1977. A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Certain photographs seem the epitome of a time and a place: true facts as much as they are works of art. Think of Mathew Brady's Civil War, Eugene Atget's Paris, Walker Evans' 1930's: images so evocative of the spirit as well as the physical look of their subjects that they have become our very conception of that place at that time. Lewis Hine belongs among these true masters of the cameràs power. His pictures make a history for us. They are also enthralling personal realities..