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Valley of Shadows and Dreams

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Heyday Books, 2012 - Business & Economics - 153 pages
A documentary look at the critical problems of the most productive farmland in America and the people who work on it by an award-winning team. With an introduction by Thomas Steinbeck .

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User Review  - Publishers Weekly vol. 259 iss. 17 p.

In this stunning monograph, the husband-and-wife duo (Coal Hollow) present a searing indictment of industrial agribusiness and institutional failure in California’s Central Valley, the great swath of ... Read full review

About the author (2012)

Ken Light, a social documentary photographer, is Adjunct Professor and Director of the Center for Photography, Graduate School of Journalism, at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his books are "Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers (2000), "Texas Death Row (1997), and "Delta Time (1995). Melanie Light is a writer and Executive Director of Fotovision.org.

Thomas Steinbeck began his career on the 1960s as a motion picture cinematographer and photojournalist in Vietnam. He serves on the board of the Board of Directors of The Stella Adler Theater and The National Steinbeck Center. He has written numerous dramatic adaptations of his father's work as well as a number of original documentaries. Thomas Steinbeck lives on the central coast of California with his wife.