
The Migrant Project
Contemporary California Farm Workers
Rick Nahmias(Author)
University of New Mexico Press
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8263-4407-6 (ISBN)
Description
The images in this book highlight the lives of the men and women who struggle to exist while literally feeding this country. Countless words and studies over decades bemoan the plight of those who toil in the fields, but Rick Nahmias' pictures bring farm workers to us in an unforgettable way, taking us beyond stoop labor stills and into their intimate moments and inner lives. Having traveled over four thousand miles to document California's migrant workforce, Nahmias' soulful images and incisive text go beyond one state's issues, illuminating the bigger story about the human cost of feeding America.""The Migrant Project"" includes the images and text of the traveling exhibition of the same name, along with numerous outtakes and an in-depth preface by Nahmias. Accompanied by a Foreword from United Farm Worker co-creator Dolores Huerta, essays by top farm worker advocates, and oral histories from farm workers themselves, this volume should find itself at home in the hands of everyone from the student and teacher, to the activist, the photography enthusiast, and the consumer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
40 duotones, 16 halftones, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 277 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
685 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-4407-6 (9780826344076)
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E-Book
03/2008
Simon + Schuster LLC
€22.74
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Persons
Rick Nahmias is a documentary photographer, writer, and filmmaker whose work has been shown across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian and reside in several private and public collections across the country.