Book review

This wonderful survey of California photography from daguerrotypes to the present served as the catalog for an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California’s exhibition ‘Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present’ and is edited by its photography curator Drew Heath Johnson.

With many, many fine reproductions and several quite splendid essays it’s a superb introduction to California photography in a large format.

When I tell you that remiandered or lightly used copies are to be found on the web and that mine cost all of $11 shipped, what are you waiting for?

As Edward Weston cheekily said, “Everything worth photographing is in California”.