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BOOK INFO  Hardcover, 10 X 7.5 In. / 96 Pages / 79 Color  ISBN 9780989798150  List Price: $45.00  “Mayes has created a visual narrative in her book that elicits surprise, laughter and the recognition that odd juxtapositions in life can become metaphorical in art.”, - Lenscratch, February 10, 2015 “The book includes photos from several long term projects: from auto landscapes and Wall Street to things on the ground and selfies in the dentist’s’ chair.”, - The New York Times Lens Blog, July 28, 2015 Photographs by Elaine Mayes  For the past six years, photographer Elaine Mayes (born 1936) has been crisscrossing the US, never remaining in one place for more than three or four months at a time. The resulting volume of stylistically eclectic photographs represents a diary-like record of an itinerant life that seems a far cry from the On the Road-style liberty enjoyed by rebellious young people of the 1950s and 60s--and yet Mayes’ pictures, taken in places that range from the Southern Oregon Coast to Italy, France, Seattle, Washington, DC and New York’s Financial District, Tribeca and Brooklyn, are nothing if not joyful, exuberant exercises in freedom and revolt. With this volume, Mayes moves forward from the portrayal of more liberated lifestyles that she began in the 1960s with her pictures from San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury and the music counterculture to focus on a broader vista that encompasses our current cultural moment.