Product Description

Take a visual journey through Kansas! The extraordinary photographs showcased in Kansas 24/7 are an extension of the America 24/7 project, an unprecedented digital photography venture that harnessed the talents of more than 25,000 local photographers in all 50 states. This remarkable book showcases 613 images adding up to a panoramic glimpse of life-in-progress in the Sunflower State, from a Wellsville mustang ranch to a Kansas City drive-in theater. You ll discover heartwarming photographs that perfectly capture the spirit of the state, with images of: A Boeing machinist assembling behemoth jetliners in Wichita A Topeka firefighter administering blood-pressure tests to the public Teenage cowboys in Allen practicing roping for a high school rodeo A country band playing the Lawrence Senior Center Boys skipping rocks on a Potowatomi Indian Reservation pond And much more! From the burial grounds of Leavenworth National Cemetery to the rye fields of Stafford Country, Kansas is literally and figuratively the center of America. The visions collected in this album add up to a cornucopia and reveal the human intimacies inside, where the heart is.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #782863 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

About the Author
Rick Smolan and David Elliott Cohen are the original creators of the best selling Day in the Life series and have been responsible for the most successful photography books in history including the New York Times #1 best seller A Day in the Life of America.

Smolan and Cohen's ambitious and imaginative projects combine storytelling with state-of-the art-technology and have appeared numerous times on the covers of Time, Newsweek, Fortune and US News & World Report.

Smolan and his wife Jennifer Erwitt are Co-Directors Against All Odds Productions, based in Sausalito California. Fortune Magazine honored Against All Odds calling them 'One of the 25 Coolest Companies in America'. Smolan and Erwitt's award winning projects include: From Alice to Ocean, Passage to Vietnam, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, One Digital Day and The Planet Project.

Cohen is President of Western Arts Management based in Ross California. His award winning books include The Circle of Life, The Now and Then series, One Year Off and A Day in the Life of Africa.

Customer Reviews

More of the same from this series
Most of the photographs depicted could have been taken anywhere. The natural beauty of this state has been ignored. This could have been a great series. Very disappointing.

decent photographs, but nothing that says "Kansas"
Other than a Dorothy look-a-like sporting a gingham jumper and ruby red slippers on the cover, there is nothing about this book that is uniquely Kansas. With a title of Kansas 24/7, I was expecting a book of photographs about -- well, duh -- Kansas. This is not necessarily a book about Kansas; it is a collection of photographs taken in Kansas.

The photographs are interesting -- but they're just regular people doing their routine daily activities -- feeding babies, giving kids a bath, gardening in the yard, praying around the dinner table, getting a haircut, working at a factory -- in Kansas. Perhaps that's the point of the book -- to record common people doing everyday things -- but I was expecting something different. I was expecting a book that captured the uniqueness of Kansas in some way -- the flat expanse of western Kansas, the oil wells and wheatfields, the Flint HIlls, the beauty and barrenness of the landscape, the landmarks. Pictures of a family inside of their house going about their business could be taken anywhere -- the fact that the house just happens to be located in Leawood, Kansas doesn't make the photographs about Kansas. Pictures of parents feeding babies in highchairs in Kansas and pictures of people working in a restaurant in Kansas don't communicate the specialness of Kansas. Even the selection of photos doesn't seem to represent all of Kansas -- there are way too many photographs of farms & farm animals and very few photographs of city life.

I purchased the book to give it as a gift for European visitors, thinking it would be a nice reminder of their visit to this fine state. I was mistaken.

Alhthough I enjoyed looking at the photographs, I wouldn't buy the book again, and I certainly choose it as a gift about Kansas.