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A collection of photographs by American photographer Nan Chauncy Harley. After graduating from Columbia University, Harley worked as an engineer at an oil company, but was bored with his work routine and began photography. Then, while filming the life scenes of Richmond's neighbors who lived at that time, he began to think about the relationship between boring work and empty life. After that, Harley held a solo exhibition in New York and other places with the aim of appealing the separation between work and life satisfaction through the living environment of Americans, and in 1969 he won the Guggenheim Fellowship. This book is a photo book published in 1979, and is a work that captures the living environment of the residents who mainly live in San Francisco and Ohio, which Harley has taken repeatedly with a scholarship. A historical book that raises the reality of the living and cultural environment of Americans at that time and the problems hidden inside it through the interior. Straight photography that feels the strong will of the photographer and the sharpened sensibility reminiscent of Walker Evans.