Robert Dawson: Public Library Project
“Robert Dawson’s work is an irrefutable argument for the preservation of public libraries. His book is profound and heartbreakingly beautiful.” – Toni Morrison In November, photographic artists, educators, and students in the West and Southwest will conve
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Robert’s focus on literacy goes back two decades as he has traveled throughout the United States “documenting hundreds of public libraries, large and small, old and new, urban and rural, in poor communities, and in wealthy ones”. His book, The Public Library A Photographic Essay captures library across the country . As Bill Moyers notes in his forward, “Robert Dawson shows us in this collection what is at stake: when a library is open, no matter its size and shape, democracy is open, too.” The book includes a forward by Bill Moyers, an afterword by Ann Patchett, and essays, letters, and poetry celebrating libraries by Philip Levine, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, E.B. White, Isaac Asimov, Charles Simic, and others.