The weather and a place to live : photographs of the suburban west

North Carolina: Duke University Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies. Hardcover. NF/NF. White cloth boards, BW illustrated DJ. 121 pp. Steven B. Smith's compelling, often stunning black-and-white large-format photographs, which he has been making since the early 1990s in California, Utah, Nevada, and Colorado, take us into the reality of sprawling suburbs, reconfiguring what was once vast, unpopulated territory. Based on this body of work, he was chosen as winner of the biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize (truncated) in Photography. --Book jacket. (Inventory #: 131052)