Valley of Shadows and Dreams
by Ken Light (photographer) and Melanie Light
(author).
“As suburban development springs up in the San Joaquin Valley and the
economic downturn takes its toll on the world¹s most fertile farmland,
photos of jaw-dropping artistic quality capture not only people, land, and
artifact but with amazing bigness of soul capture the mood and tone of this
beautiful, betrayed, tortured landscape. This deeply felt and deeply
informed project reminds one of the work of Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor
as they documented another era of change in the San Joaquin Valley.” Heyday
Books 2012
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Ken Light is an internationally recognized and widely exhibited social
documentary photographer. He is author of eight books, including Delta Time,
Coal Hollow, To The Promised Land, Texas Death Row and Witness In Our Time.
His new book Valley of Shadows and Dreams with be published in 2012. He is a
Professor and director of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School
of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley, and a Laventhol
visiting professor at Columbia University.
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