Photographing Farmworkers in California
Author: Richard Steven Street
Date Published: 2004
Based on definitive research and filtered through a lifetime of photographing in the fields, Richard Steven Street's Photographing Farmworkers in California is a masterfully crafted, fascinating, and exceptionally beautiful work of unparalleled scholarship. Unfolding the complicated and ever-changing relationship between two distinctly different classes of people over the course of a century and a half, Street has produced a rare work of visual history whose compelling reconfiguration of an extraordinary story bridges the chasm between coffee table and seminar room, between popular writing and first rate, highly original scholarship. At once vivid, revelatory, visceral and intellectual, Photographing Farmworkers in California demands its rightful place in every institutional and personal library concerned with our collective memory.
Date Published: 2004
Based on definitive research and filtered through a lifetime of photographing in the fields, Richard Steven Street's Photographing Farmworkers in California is a masterfully crafted, fascinating, and exceptionally beautiful work of unparalleled scholarship. Unfolding the complicated and ever-changing relationship between two distinctly different classes of people over the course of a century and a half, Street has produced a rare work of visual history whose compelling reconfiguration of an extraordinary story bridges the chasm between coffee table and seminar room, between popular writing and first rate, highly original scholarship. At once vivid, revelatory, visceral and intellectual, Photographing Farmworkers in California demands its rightful place in every institutional and personal library concerned with our collective memory.
