The Photograph and the American Dream, 1840-1940,

Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 223 pp, acknowledgments, foreword by William Jefferson Clinton, American Notes by Charles Dickens; Beautiful Dreamers by Stephen White; A European Dream by Andreas Bluhm; american Identities; All Men are Created Equal; Men to Match by Mountains; Manufacturing the Dream; New Frontiers; The City Rises; index with 183 b&w plates. First Edition, 2001. "Perhaps no nation's dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. From an unknown photographer's picture of newborn George B. Billings Rego, scion of an immigrant Portuguese family and the first child ever born at Boston Long Wharf, to Lewis Hine's wrenching image of a young cotton mill worker in Georgia, to Alfred Stieglitz's awesome New York cityscapes, the photographs collected here reveal the multiple facets of 100 of the most decisive years of American development. Between 1840 and 1940, immigrants became homeowners, untouched lands exploded in superhuman industrial growth, tourists replaced pioneers, and the American metropolis grew taller and shinier -- and the camera caught it all." Not Price Clipped. Lightly bumped bottom fore-edge corners, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Red paper-covered boards with tipped-in b&w photograph on front board, white lettering to front board and spine, and decorative endpapers with white stars against blue background..