Description
William E. Jones, Ed. New York: PPP Editions, 2010. Limited Edition. Oblong quarto. An edition of 1000 copies. 130 images scanned from negatives in the collection of the Library of Congress, specifically images destroyed or defaced by the Farm Security Agency. Jones’s book is the first to deal exclusively with the 35mm negatives that FSA director Roy Stryker killed with a hole punch during the early years of the project (1935-39). The book brings to light destroyed or defaced photographs by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and others; it also includes two essays by Jones discussing the images and possible reasons for their suppression.
