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[AMERICAN WEST – PHOTOGRAPHY]. LANGE, Dorothea (1895–1965) and Paul S. TAYLOR (1895–1984). An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1939].
Small 4to. Numerous illustrations from photographs by Lange. Original gilt–lettered blue cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (few tiny chips at extreme ends, some light surface soiling on rear panel).
FIRST EDITION, in a FIRST STATE DUST JACKET listing “Mein Kampf” on rear panel. ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL AMERICAN PHOTOBOOKS showing the westward migration of Americans forced off their land by drought, depression and mechanization. “Of all the documentary photobooks stemming from the New Deal, and the FSA in particular, An American Exodus by Dorothea Lange and her sociologist husband Paul Schuster Taylor is the most considered... Her pictures are as direct as those of Walker Evans, though without his studied disinterest. Lange was much more of a ‘people person’ than Evans ever was, and this marks her work” (The Photobook: A History). Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History pp. 142–43; Roth, The Book of 101 Books pp. 102–03.