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Book SynopsisAcclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.
Trade Review"For more than seven decades, business leaders, politicians, and would-be entrepreneurs have tried to unravel the secrets of Silicon Valley. In a little more than one hundred powerful, haunting pages, Meehan and Turner have captured a side of the Valley rarely seen: the deeply inequitable landscape of contingent and disproportionately foreign-born labor that makes its high-tech magic possible. Humane, insightful, and deeply compelling, this book tells the story of Silicon Valley in a completely new and utterly magnetic way."--Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America "It is a Silicon Valley rarely described and never shown that photographer Mary Beth Meehan sought to document. . . . Without descending into pathos, she reveals the striking contrasts between the world of start-ups and that in which their employees live. . . . But underneath, Meehan also depicts another, more subtle dissonance--between the way Silicon Valley sees itself, and the way it really is."-- "Le Monde" "Meehan's photographs provide a compelling cross section of peoples and places in the Valley, featuring hidden and untold stories. The photographs are excellent, the selection is clever and balanced, and the accompanying texts are well-written and engaging."--Phillip Prodger, Yale University
Table of ContentsThe Valley on the Hill Fred Turner
Photographs and Stories Mary Beth Meehan
Cristobal
Ravi and Gouthami
Victor
Warren
Justyna
Teresa
Mary
Diane
Abraham and Brenda
Ariana and Elijah
Mark
Imelda
Richard
Leslie
Geraldine
Jolea
Melissa and Steve
Jon
Gee and Virginia
Branton and Shirley
Konstance
Aurora
Erfan
Ted
Elisa and Family
Elizabeth
Afterword
Acknowledgments
