Cousins N. The Human Adventure: A Camera Chronicle

Saybrook Pub, 1986. — 184 p.This book is a camera chronicle of the human situation as observed in visits to five continents over a quarter-century. The camera, no less than a notebook, has been part of Norman Cousins' traveling kit on journeys during his editorship of The Saturday Review and in his present work as Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California at Los Angeles. These photographs are more than a scries of striking pictures; they are a visual narrative of human aspiration and challenge in the last half of the twentieth century. They also reflect Cousins' deep interest in everyday art forms. He is fascinated with the way the camera can be made to "squint," changing the shape of objects to accompany the imagination.