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Fortune Magazine [3 Issues].
New York: Time, Inc., 1948, April, November, December. First Edition. Original Wraps. With numerous photos and illustrations by Bourke-White, Thomas Benton, Berenice Abbott, Diego Rivera, and many others. Vivid color advertisements with fantastic contemporary design elements. At a time when business publications were little more than numbers and statistics printed in black and white, Fortune was an oversized 11" × 14", using creamy heavy paper, and art on a cover printed by a special process. Fortune was also noted for its photography, featuring the work of Margaret Bourke-White, Ansel Adams, and others. Walker Evans served as its photography editor from 1945 to 1965.
During the Great Depression, the magazine developed a reputation for its social conscience, for Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White's color photographs, and for a team of writers including James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Alfred Kazin, hired specifically for their writing abilities. This issue has mural reproductions and article on industrial Detroit by Diego Rivera, [February 1933]. Good in Wraps. Moderate shelfwear, loss and wrapper detachment, chipping, and light toning, else bright and unmarred. Original decorated trade wrappers. Folio. (slightly smaller) Illus. (b/w, color plates). [Volume XXXVII, Number 4] [Nov., Dec.]. Item #13374
Price: $150.00