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Nancy Baron: The Good Life > Palm Springs

This week, Lenscratch looks at some new books published this fall.. I am happy to celebrate photographer Nancy Baron’s first monograph,  The Good Life > Palm Springs, published by Kehrer Verlag, not only because I love the work, but also because Nancy is

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Nancy Baron doesn’t idealize Palm Springs, she celebrates it with humor and wry observations: the timeless cut of a red checkered sports jacket on a cherry red sports car; a bedroom of floor-to-ceiling leopard; iconic architecture made real by the morning paper waiting in its driveway. Her photographs prove she is not a tourist, but rather a participant observer of her own desert dream, with the ability to live the good life while paying attention to what makes it so special.