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A day in the life of America
AMERICA
In the late spring of 1986, a strange thing happened on the
world's newsfronts. Two hundred leading photojournalists
from thirty countries took temporary leaves of absence from
assignments in Nicaragua, the Philippines, South Africa, the
African Sahel, the Paris fashion scene and the high-tech fac-
tories of Japan.
These award-winning lensmen-representing the world's
foremost newspapers and magazines-packed their cameras
and flew to Denver, Colorado, in the heart of the American
West. There they began one of the most unusual and chal-
lenging assignments of their careers. Their job: to capture
America on film during the course of a single day.
Photojourmalist Rick Smolan and editor David Cohen called
the photographers together and gave them unusual instruc-
tions: Don't try to make the definitive statement about
America. Avoid clichés. Instead do the hardest thing of all-
make extraordinary pictures of ordinary events.
In A Day in the Life of America, you will go on assignment
with members of the most illustrious photography team ever
assembled. Start the day at the top of Mount Washington
with Pulitzer prize-winner Jay Dickman. Infiltrate a Ku Klux
Klan meeting with Australian photographer Gerrit Fokkema.
Hop a freight train out of Denver with Belgium's John Vink,
and meet illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande with
Pulitzer prize-winner Larry Price.
A Day in the Life of America is a scrapbook of a nation. The
hundreds of color and black-and-white pictures in this book
were chosen from almost a quarter million shot on May 2,
1986. No picture is twenty-four hours older or younger than
any other.