A Country Called California by Stephen White Children A Country Called California captures

A Country Called California captures the light that has captivated every photographer's eye

and shares the peace and vulnerability of a sea lion at rest

Over mountains

These birds are social

pine cones

A Country Called California by Stephen White Children A Country Called California capturesby Stephen White Collecting more than 200 stunning photographs in one volume, A Country Called California: Photographs 1850s to 1950s traces the development of the Golden State from the nineteenth century on, through its emergence as the fifth largest economy in the world all as seen through the eyes of photographers whose names are synonymous with fine art photography: Ansel Adams, Carleton E. Watkins, Dorothea Lange, Edward Muybridge, Will Connell,