"In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marine Jon Lewis visited Delano, California, center of the California grape strike. He thought that he might stay awhile, then resume studying photogra
A photographer and journalist specializing in California agriculture and agricultural labor, Street sets out what he calls one of the great sagas of American labor. He begins with the first overland e
Author and photographer Street provides a thorough history of California farm workers as they were presented in America's visual culture from the 1850s to 2000. The author notes that American photogra
The work of nearly every photographer of consequence since the nineteenth century is captured in this collection of photographs of California farmworkers, raising moral questions about the exploitatio
