Faces USA Author:Arnold Newman Faces USA captures the essence of the nation-it's people. It shows Americans as they have never been shown before. After a nationwide search for the faces that best exemplified the land, the most prominent portrait photographer in the country, Arnold Newman, was dispatched to record their images. Newman, a photographer of the great and near g... more »reat, approached the project with trepidation, but the work he produced shows mastery of his field.
Here is the story of the long search for the "faces" and the revealing pictures that resulted. Here also, in a special section on equipment and technique, Arnold Newman talks about how he made the pictures on this, a most challenging assignment. Thomas Thompson's brilliant foreward builds a framework for the book and makes us aware of the basic human similarities that bind us together to make us a nation.« less