The communities Littky shoots fulfill our stereotypes of salt-of-the-earth desert living ... If there hasn’t been a photo project on that yet, there’s a good book there as well.

_In this second installment of Desert Island Photo Books, I asked Lyle Rexer which five photography books he would want to be stranded on a desert island with. Lyle is a photo critic, curator ...

“The concern here is the Mojave Desert, the dry, baptismal font of national consciousness, mythological birthplace of America. It takes a big, white-hearted ... of society. A book that took ...