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 photographers have had a long fascination with the state's farm workers, from the days of the Gold Rush to the Great Depression and into today's digital world. In the book's section on the emergence of the social documentary tradition, the author follows the rise and ensuing career of photographer Dorothea Lange, one of the early chroniclers of social problems in California. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)