"Ansel Adams is best known for a series of photographs he produced of America's natural heritage known collectively as the National Park Service Photographs, representative examples of which are reproduced here. This assignment was especially commissioned in 1941 by Harold Ickes of the United States Department of the Interior and the aim was to record for posterity areas that had been designated national parks, as well as portraying the ..."
Home Now How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town by CynthiaAnderson Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-5417-6791-1, ISBN: 1-5417-6791-8
"A moving chronicle of struggle, transformation, and who belongs in America.The once-thriving city of Lewiston had fallen on hard times--mills closed, jobs gone. It was mostly white, and the young were leaving. Then thousands of African Muslim immigrants came to town.Over the past 15 years, Lewiston, Maine has improbably become one of the most Muslim towns in America. About 6,000 of the city's 36,000 inhabitants are African refugees and ..."
"One of the least known, yet most fascinating of California's national parks, Channel Islands National Park is a refuge of wild and rugged beauty. Relatively few visitors make the journey by boat or plane across the Santa Barbara Channel to the pristine shores of these five islands. But those who do find a windswept paradise rich in both natural and human history. Over 140 photographs record some of the most-visited and best-loved site ..."
Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens A Garden in a Valley on the Ocean by CynthiaAnderson Hardcover, Published 1994 by Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, Papaikou, Hawaii, U.S.A. ISBN-13: 978-0-9639711-1-1, ISBN: 0-9639711-1-5
"Susan Jorgensen relates her ongoing investigation of life forces and natural cycles. Interspersed with her nature journal entries, this book presents nine photograhic series that form the major portion of her creative effort in the 1990s. All of the images are gelatin silver prints embellished by oil painting, pencil, and ink. Found objects - bones, feathers, nests - punctuate the images and render new associations. The photograhic seri ..."