Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43

Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43
ISBN-10
0810943484
ISBN-13
9780810943483
Series
Bound for Glory
Category
Photography
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2004-05-04
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Author
Paul Hendrickson

Description

National Book Award finalist Hendrickson introduces a selection of the best of the Farm Security Administration color photographs, which remain among the most moving and famous documentary images from the first half of the 20th century.

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