Ken Light: Course of the Empire

A decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartland

A decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the United States photographing a country that he realized was the most fragile of organisms. The photographs of the earlier years in this book create the context for understanding how America lost its way. Light reached all four corners of the country to document people across race, class and political lines. We see the heartland and the coastal ci...