Public Library,The: A Photographic Essay

Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed America documenting hundreds of public libraries. The Public Library presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs.. Foreword written by Anna Patchett with contributions from Dr. Seuss, Bill Moyers, Barbara Kingsolver, Charles Simic and Phillip Levine, and more. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America's most celebrated writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey of a treasured American institution.
ISBN 9781616892173. Princeton Architectural Press. hb. 192 pages. full colour. 20.3 x 22.9 cm.
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