American History

Not Entirely Normal Lens

nce upon a time in America, not everybody had and used a camera. Serious photography, new from Chronicle Books, combines penetrating essays on Marshall the artist and Marshall the man by a variety of writers to complement a wealth of compelling Marshall images, some familiar from ubiquity, others resoundingly fresh in their power and humanity.

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