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Photography
Luminous Mountains: The Sierra Nevada of California Born of an intimate relationship with nature, Luminous Mountains is a spirited journey of discovery up the high peaks and down the wild rivers of the great Sierra Nevada. With 137 stunning photographs and the engaging text of a seasoned...
Yosemite Meditations This delightful little book is filled with meditative quotes about nature, the environment, and our national parks. Acclaimed resident photographer Michael Frye pairs each quote with a breathtaking full-color image of Yosemite. The book provides the ideal inspiration for contemplating...
Above All: Mount Whitney and California's Highest Peaks California's "Fourteeners"—Mount Whitney, Mount Shasta, and the loftiest peaks of the High Sierra—have long teased the imaginations and challenged the fortitude of mountaineers. Photographer and mountaineer David Stark Wilson captures the treacherous beauty of these summits and the surrounding panorama,...
Yosemite Once Removed: Portraits of the Backcountry This is a series of breathtaking photographs by Claude Fiddler paired with essays that focus on the territory beyond the familiar landmarks of Half Dome and Bridalveil Falls. The book explores Yosemite's undefiled, primordial landscape as preserved through generations. Essays...
Yosemite: The Promise of Wildness This fine gift book is an exploration of Yosemite's meaning and prospect for humankind through the insightful essays of Tim Palmer and the renowned photographic talents of William Neill. This collection of over seventy images includes monumental portraits of Yosemite's...
The Yosemite Here is the complete text of John Muir's classic work about Yosemite, presented with 101 images from the work of renowned photographer Galen Rowell. Muir's writings, supplemented by modern annotations, capture the history and essence of Yosemite. A powerful evocation...
Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames Jazz Idiom showcases the intimate photography of Charles L. Robinson. A friend to many of the jazz musicians photographed, he often caught them in moments of candor: Charles Mingus, goateed and pensive, hunched over a Steinway, phrases dancing in his...
Edges of Bounty: Adventures in the Edible Valley Join photographer Scott Squire and writer William Emery as they meander—bewildered, impressionable, and wry—through the roads, back roads, and backwaters of America's greatest agricultural valley. Leaving behind the packaged comforts of supermarkets and restaurants, the pair roamed California's Central Valley...
Under the Dragon:
California's New Culture The old paradigm of the melting pot and phrases like "ethnic diversity" can no longer describe the freedom with which more and more Americans are modifying and assimilating cultural elements across ethnic lines. Under the Dragon is a fascinating look...
Structures of Utility Packing sheds, grain silos, wooden tank house outbuildings, and mine elevators have been eloquently captured by David Stark Wilson's keen, appreciative, and knowledgeable eye. Using a large format view camera, Wilson has elevated these architecturally underappreciated structures of pure utility...
Shades of California: The Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life The Shades project began in Los Angeles in 1991 as a local exhibition of the city's diverse communities. The phenomenal success of this "Shades of LA" project generated interest in a statewide version, the "Shades of California". At "Photo Days"...
Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge Son of the renowned photographer Imogen Cunningham, Rondal began helping his mother with her work at the age of five. At seventeen he became Dorothea Lange's apprentice, and in the late 1930s he began working for Ansel Adams. Intimately associated...
Picturing California's Other Landscape: The Great Central Valley This lavish, oversized full-color book features 150 years of paintings, photographs, tourist and advertising art, and maps that depict California's Great Central Valley. Through text and images, Picturing California's Other Landscape examines the portrayal of the Central Valley over the...
Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography Whether probing personal identity or exploring the world around them, twenty-six indigenous photographers present images that are fresh, provocative, iconoclastic, surprising, and—in the broadest and deepest meaning of the word—authentic. Their works range from the artful studio portraits of Benjamin...
Ira Nowinski's San Francisco: Poets, Politics, and Divas "I have written about coteries, but artists like Nowinski represent rovers, people who study and document other communities and make it possible to see something of how culture is born and nurtured in many places. This is art in service...
Deeper Than Gold: A Guide to Indian Life in the Sierra Foothills Brian Bibby brings together the present and the past—both ancient and recent—in a fascinating compilation of anecdote, myth, recollection, and reflection. Five years in the making and the result of almost thirty years of dedicated work among California's native communities,...
Bitter Melon: Inside America's Last Rural Chinese Town At the turn of the century, Locke, located in the Sacramento Delta, was the only village in the United States built and inhabited exclusively by Chinese immigrants. This collection of moving oral histories and stunning photographs offers an unforgettable glimpse...
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