palms

by Marvin J. Wolf

A gorgeous, artfully-presented collection of superb photographs of Southern California's skyline signature, the palm tree. From Catalina to the Inland Empire, from Santa Barbara to Mexicali, the palm is everywhere, both as a living, breathing and reproducing part of the ecosystem and as a design element and cultural totem. Celebrated photojournalist and author Marvin J. Wolf has been creating these images for decades--now they available in a single volume. While Miami has palm trees—lots of them, as do Honolulu, Phoenix, and half the cities in California--even breezy old San Francisco has palm trees. Lately,, even Dallas has been trying to get into the palm act. But LA is the original. The place that put palms in the movies, that made palms famous, that created a skyline signature. Palms are part of the city’s character, not just landscape grace notes but an essential design element, the skyline's fabled signature.

60 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

The son of a junkman and a mad housewife (really--she spent half her adult life in mental hospitals), Wolf served 13 years on active duty with the US Army, including a 15-month combat tour in Vietnam. He has worked as a dishwasher, an encyclopedia salesman, a camera store clerk and as a photojournalist with worldwide credits. In 1983, when he regained sole custody of his only child, he put aside his successful career in photojournalism to become an author. A Los Angeles Times bestselling author, Wolf has three times been recognized by the American Society of Journalists and Authors for his professionalism. In 2001, Wolf took a nine-year detour through the movie and television business, an education in writing fiction. One of his screenplays, "Ladies Night," was produced and aired on the USA Network. He returned to writing books and launched a career in fiction in 2010. He lives with his adult daughter in Asheville, NC.