Photo Essay: A collection of pictures on a single theme, arranged to convey a mood, deliver information, tell a story, in a way that one picture alone cannot. Selection and arrangement are all-important. A successful photo essay is always greater than the sum of its parts. It has a life of its own. It says more, has a greater impact than any single picture in it.

Great Photographic Essays from Life, commentary by Maitland Edey. Little, Brown and Company. 1978. Page 1.

Photo Essays

• Another Vietnam Story
• Can-Am at Laguna Seca
• 1939 New York World's Fair
• River of Sandstone
• Vistas
• Olympic National Park
• John Krill's Graduation
• 1970's Laguna Beach No-Music Music Festival
• Los Angeles Zoo 1967
• Back Alley
• Cherry Point Memories
• Veteran's Day Parade 1966
• Point-of-View
• One Man, One Machine, Two Supervisors
• The Last Farmer of Capistrano Beach
• Mission San Juan Capistrano
• 3 For New York
• Valley of Fire Dunes

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• I Protest!
• Water. Cool, Clear, Water
• Joy
• Father's Day
• Kids Universal
• Canyon De Chelly #1
• Zion National Park
• Valley of Fire Ranch
• Hawaiian Man
• Cloud Studies #1
• W. Eugene Smith
• What a Country!
• Valley of Fire Dunes
• Monument Valley
• Zion National Park
• Arches' Delicate Arch
• Fall Study #2
• Fall Study #1
• Port Townsend Light
• Death Valley Sunrise
• Signs On
• Bird Bate
• Surfer
• Taking the Picture
• Taking Sun

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