Empire: Photographs and Essays by Lewis deSoto, Heyday, 2016, SC, VG.

deSoto, Lewis, et al. Berkeley: Heyday, Inlandia Institute, & the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, 2016. 

English, Very Good, SC, 8vo, 8" x 9", [v] xv, 106 pp.  

ISBN: 9781597143349

White pictorial gatefold softcover, featuring deSoto's 2013 photograph of Whitewater to front panel, 2014 photograph of Salton Sea Beach to back panel, blue and gray lettering to front and spine, black lettering to back panel, minor bump to tail, light soiling to first page, otherwise, clean, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [v] xv, 106 pp., replete with full-color photographs, with one fold-out image. Includes Foreword by Paul Chaat Smith, Curator's Statement by Sant Khalsa, "Introduction: Eternal Return to the Land of Ghosts," six sections: "San Bernardino," "Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Rialto," "Redlands," "Highway 18," "Riverside," "Palm Springs, Indio, The Salton Sea," About the Authors, and About the publishers. From back panel: "In photos and prose, Lewis deSoto explores his birthplace and ancestral Cahuilla homeland, the 'marvelous and abject' landscape of Southern California's Inland Empire...DeSoto's narrative, personal essays mark these places as bearers of history, industrialization, sharp social strata, as well as sites of transformation."