The Other California, 1975

Signed First Edition, Soft-cover with flaps, 2020

Fifty years ago, at the age of twenty, Peter Turnley was commissioned by the California Office of Economic Opportunity to make a four-month road trip through America’s largest agricultural and rural state to make a photo documentary about the working class and poor. This was a time when California was too often represented only by the stereotypical imagery of its beautiful coastline, surfers, blondes, Hollywood, sunny skies, and glamour.

Turnley’s newest book, The Other California, 1975, is an astonishing and invaluable visual time capsule of the realities of life in California and the United States.

The Other California, 1975 is a powerful photographic equivalent of The Grapes of Wrath, revealing the realities of the other California, not its idealized version.

– Peter Turnley

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A New York–Paris Visual Diary — The Human Face of Covid-19

Signed First Edition, Soft-cover with flaps, 2020

"This is a visual tribute to the humanity of all of the heroes and victims, often one and the same, who have been at the epicenter, New York City, and Paris, of the world war against the invisible enemy of Covid-19 these past many months. This visual diary began in New York on March 20, when I was in New York City as it entered a lockdown. After two months, in May, I returned to Paris, my permanent residence, and continued this visual diary as Paris emerged from two months of “confinement” and began to open up. This book is my tribute to the people of two of the most vibrant and unique cities in the world—and a testament to the strength of our human family worldwide."

– Peter Turnley

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Cuba — A Grace of Spirit

Signed First Edition, Hardcover with Slipcase, 2015

"I have a deep love for the people of Cuba. Throughout a lifetime of world travel, rarely have I been to a place where I’ve witnessed so much grace, spirit, dignity, and wonderful humanity. I have traveled regularly to Cuba since 1989. During recent years, I have made dozens of trips to Cuba.

The people of Cuba have taught and demonstrated to me so many beautiful lessons of how life can be lived well. This book is a visual tribute with love to the grace of spirit of the people of Cuba."

– Peter Turnley

French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris

Limited Signed First Edition, Hardcover with Slipcase, 2013

"French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris."

– Peter Turnley

McClellan Street

By David and Peter Turnley
Indiana University Press, 2007

"These photographs of McClellan Street by David and Peter Turnley, taken in 1972-73, help us understand how America came to be the country that it is today.

McClellan Street is a gem of photographic documentation. Though the street itself is now an extended parking lot, its spirit, and the spirit of those times, lives on in this book."

— John G. Morris