Description: This Epic, lavishly illustrated history of California photography begins with daguerreotypes from the Gold Rush in 1850 and takes us up to great landscape artists like Ansel Adams, the glittering glamour shots of Hollywood, and the strange postmodern visions of David Hockney. Curator Drew Heath Johnson has culled hundreds of color-plate images, many never seen before, from the extensive collections at the Oakland Museum of California and elsewhere, allowing us to grasp the crucially central role California played in the development of American photography. Along with the images, illuminating essays by pioneering scholars summarize and, in some cases, prophesize how California photographers helped shape the nation's consciousness. The result is a glorious and important work, published during California's sesquicentennial, that will be a lavish addition to any home library.

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