Photo of a young child in a plaid shirt and cowboy hat holding a handful of green plants in one hand.

America 24/7: 24 Hours, 7 Days, Extraordinary Images of One American Week

by Rick Smolan Author and David Elliot Cohen Author

Have you ever wanted a glimpse into the American life, free from media preconceptions and presence? This collection of digital photographs provides a visual time capsule of American life from Jay 12-18, 2003, capturing a diversity of people, cultures, and accomplishments across the United States. With photojournalistic, people-driven snapshots of young and old at work and play throughout the entire United States over a given time period, this book documents the joy and beauty in the mundane and everyday that millions interact with everyday. There are babies, children, parents, and elderly; rites of passage, monuments, forests, circus performers, movie stars, and cattlemen. This collection captures the common threads in photographs no matter where or by whom in all of the joys and sorrows of American Life.