LANGE, Dorothea, & Paul Schuster Taylor.

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An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. First edition, in the rare first issue jacket with Mein Kampf advertised on the back panel. Lange's photographs of the flight of families from the Dust Bowl and Taylor's commentary combine to make this one of the most powerful photobooks of the 21st century, as recognised in Roth's The Book of 101 Books.The parallels to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath are hard to miss, however, despite being called "Steinbeck in Pictures" in a contemporary review, the inverse was actually the case: "Steinbeck's powerful text was, in effect, Dorothea Lange in words. Her photographs had inspired Steinbeck's novel and also the the film that followed." (Spirn, p. 38).

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