Shades of California: The Hidden Beauty of Ordinary Life - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890771449 ISBN 13: 9781890771447

Publisher: Heyday Books, 2001

Synopsis

Created as a result of the California State Library’s "Shades of LA" project, in which families were invited by their local public libraries to bring family photographs for inclusion in an exhibit illuminating the diversity of Los Angeles’s communities, the Shades project proved to be so popular and successful that it expanded to include libraries and communities all over California.

Shades of California brings together the most interesting of the thousands of photographs that were gathered, along with notes and anecdotes about the families the photographs came from and the moments when the pictures were taken. With images of ordinary day-to-day life, milestone occasions, sad and joyous moments, this book paints a loving portrait of the complex collage that is California’s family.

About this title

About the Author:

Kimi Kodani Hill began researching the lives of her grandparents, Chiura and Haruko Obata, in 1985, eventually assuming the role of family historian. Since 1993, she has presented numerous slide lectures on her grandfather’s life and work. She has also served as a consultant for an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution on the Japanese American internment. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, she currently lives in Berkeley.

Review:

"The images and memories of everyday life are as precious as they are prosaic." -- The Sacramento Bee

About this edition

• Publisher: Heyday Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1890771449
• ISBN 13: 9781890771447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Hill Kimi Kodani