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paperback, Coming in spring 2009. ISBN: 978-1-59714-103-1, $22.50 Tell me when this paperback becomes available Dream Street
Douglas McCulloh; Foreword by D. J. Waldie
Documenting the birth of a suburb In 1999, author and photographer Douglas McCulloh won the right from a charity auction to name a street in a yet-to-be-developed subdivision in Ontario, California. Curious about the construction process, McCulloh visited Dream Street regularly with his camera and interviewed the workers to chronicle the evolution of this new neighborhood. McCulloh's work centers on the men and women who work in construction and the first-time buyers struggling to purchase a piece of the California dream. As the tract of land progresses from an abandoned strawberry field to a jumble of wooden frames to the prototypical California suburban neighborhood, McCulloh builds a portrait of an industry whose workers--most of whom are non-union and poorly paid--know the American dream is far out of their reach. Many of the hopeful buyers who visit Dream Street are turned down for loans as well, and by mid-2008, more than two hundred houses in the surrounding area were in some stage of foreclosure. In the tradition of noted photojournalists such as Robert Adams and Bill Owens, McCulloh's photos and interviews offer an insight into the human side of the process that has changed so much of Southern California from open ranchos to endless city in a single century. A prescient view of the crisis that was to befall America's housing market, Dream Street's story lends authority to the history and fate of Dream Streets everywhere. Advanced Praise "Dream Street is a disturbing yet moving portrait of lives indentured to that ruthless outdoor sweatshop known as the home construction industry. McCulloh confronts us with —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
"I can think of no other recent account of the suburbs that has the heartbreaking qualities of McCulloh's Dream Street. Only in the novels of the opening of the Great Plains at the turn of the century are the social, economic, and environmental forces that shaped the making of a place so clearly drawn, and on so human a scale." —D. J. Waldie, from the Foreword 
Photo by Dawn Hassett About the Author and Photographer Douglas McCulloh is an artist, writer, educator, and curator who pays close attention to the workings of chance. Born and raised in Southern California, he is an honors graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds an MFA in photography and digital media from Claremont Graduate University. McCulloh’s photography has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, China, and Mexico. |
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