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Anderson, Erica. The World of Albert Schweitzer. A Book of Photographs by Erica Anderson.

Anderson, Erica. The World of Albert Schweitzer. A Book of Photographs by Erica Anderson.

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Text and Captions by Eugene Exman.  Picture editing and book design by Barbara Morgan, the acclaimed photographer. Harper & Brothers, 1955.  Hardcover, near fine with small brown stain at bottom corner of a couple of pages, with very good protected dust jacket that has wear at extremities.  Binding has black cloth around spine with remainder marbled gray paper over the boards.  A much better copy than usually found, as numerous defective copies are available elsewhere for sale. Includes 169 photographs printed in photogravure with deep black tones.  Depicts Dr. Schweitzer at work in Africa with lepers and others, as well as many photographs of Black Africans who came to seek health care at his medical facility.  Also a chapter on Schweitzer in Europe.  Photographer and filmmaker Anderson spent "the better part of four years" photographing Schweitzer and his environs in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa, and Günsbach, in Alsace, France.
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