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• Author: Mike Scully

Seller Description: Used-Very Good. In Heber Springs, a reclusive photographer known simply as Disfarmer created an uncanny record of American rural life during the 1930s and 1940s. Working out of his modest studio, Disfarmer created portraits which are direct and unpretentious. Disfarmer's portraits of cotton farmers, tradesmen, soldiers home on leave, and the extended families that made up this rural community, reveal a common bond that is rapidly disappearing in the United States. They are bold portraits, and ... See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. This is a fine hardcover copy in a near fine dust jacket. Tiny ding to back of jacket near spine. Completely clean inside and out. This is the stated first edition. Limited to 4000 copies. Illustrated in black & white. 10" high X 7" wide, 207 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine and bright dark boards with silver titles in near fine pictorial dustjacket, just the gentlest of use. Quite handsome all around. This edition is the real McCoy. A unique record of an almost undocumented period comes to the light for the first time. World War II between 1941-1945 remains photographically in limbo, caught between the gigantic 1930s record of the Farm Security Administration photographs and the essays of the photojournalists who emerged just after the war. Mike Disfarmer, an ... See More Details