I See Beauty in This Life: A Photographer Looks at 100 Years of Rural California January 12, 2013

Over the past two years, writer and photographer Lisa M. Hamilton has been telling the stories of rural communities in California in her multimedia work Real Rural. For this exhibition she has delved into the collections of the California Historical Society to connect these present-day stories with the past. Featuring roughly 150 photographs, I See Beauty in This Life is a combination of large-scale color prints by Hamilton and her selections from California Historical Society's vast photography collections--material dating from the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century, much of which has never been exhibited before.