Another book entitled Farewell, Promised Land Waking from the California Dream was done in collaboration with writer Gray Brechin and was published by the University of California Press in 1999. A native of Sacramento, California, Mr. Dawson received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his M.A. from San Francisco State University. He is currently an Instructor of Photography at San Jose State University and an Instructor of photography at Stanford University. He currently resides in San Francisco with his wife Ellen Manchester, and son Walker Manchester Dawson. All images on this site are copyrighted and may only be used with the written permission of Robert Dawson.
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