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The Great Central Valley Project is an exhibit and book using landscape photography to examine this dramatically human-altered agricultural heartland of California. Photographers Stephen Johnson, Robert Dawson and author Gerald Haslam assembled this work as a project of the California Academy of Sciences. The exhibit-format book was published by University of California Press in 1993.

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A Gallery of Photographs by Stephen Johnson
The Project
Photographers: Stephen Johnson and Robert Dawson
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Great Central Valley PSA (1986) Video

The Project Book:
The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland

Special Limited-Edition Book in Walnut Case with Original Prints

This extraordinary book is exquisitely bound in a natural linen and contained in a finely crafted walnut and linen case. The title is embossed in a delicate green on both the outside case, spine and cover. The endpapers are natural mulberry fiber in a speckled soft green, coordinating beautifully with the embossed title.

Making a Digital Book
Art, Design, Computers and the Production of "The Great Central Valley: California's Heartland"

The Great Central Valley Project Exhibit

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Installation Photographs
The Computer/Video Interpretation Program
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