Jake Longstreth: Tulare: Scenes from California's Central Valley

From 2008 to 2012, often in the dead of summer, American painter Jake Longstreth (born 1977) photographed the dusty, utilitarian Central Valley of California, a severe inland topography formerly occupied by the massive Tulare Lake. With a tonal restraint echoing the style of his own flatly realistic paintings, Longstreth's photographs capture the hazy, blinding sunlight and muted palette of this region, a topography that has been transformed from a lush, wild terrain--celebrated by John Muir in 1868 as "one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom"--into the monotonously fertile industrial farmland it is today. "Millions of people pass over the dry lake-bed in their cars every year, unaware of its previous existence," Longstreth notes with ambivalent fascination. "A Taco Bell now stands roughly where the shores of Tulare Lake once were."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999265520
• ISBN13: 9780999265529
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Ice Plant
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.0" x 11.5"