The Worker Photography Movement [1926-1939] Essays and Documents

near Fine 8vo, stiuff wraps, 442 pages with 250 b/w reproductions. Scores of essays; texts in blue & black type and in English. Difficult-to-find at a fair price. “The worker-photography movement remains a difficult, still-pending chapter in the history of photography, a kind of ‘missing link’ in our understanding of how photographic modernism evolved over the course of the 20th century. This book and accompanying exhibition is intended to rectify this shortcoming, by recognizing the central role the movement played in the photographic debates occurring between the wars. The book is divided into different sections which covers the movement of nine countries such as Russia, Germany, France, Spain or USA. This edition includes images of Eugène A