America worked. The 1950s photographs of Dan Weiner. Ed. by William A. Ewing.

Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The decade of the 1950s, as America recovered from World War II, was one of steadily rising growth and prosperity. The years of privation and family disruption were over, the men had returned from overseas, and the nation and the economy thrived. New homes, new businesses, new products emerged everywhere. Among those documenting this bustling time was Dan Weiner, a superb photojournalist with an uncanny eye for telling a story and seeing behind the social facade. Working largely for "Fortune" magazine, Weiner had a special mandate to focus on the business community. What he pictured, though, was not the conventional story of huge factories and churning lathes, but the real lives of the real people who ran the factories, who bought their stock, who sold their goods, and who themselves were householders and consumers. William A. Ewing contributes two interesting essays; one on Dan Weiner himself and another on his working methods. The latter details the fascinating story of a serious photographer's relationships with his magazine editors. Anthropologist Lionel Tiger provides a personal and historic overview of the character of the busy postwar period. ISBN 0810911779