Kenneth Graves was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1942, and served in the Navy from 1962 until 1966. The pictures that make up his book The Home Front show something of the world he came back to when he decided to settle in San Francisco amid the tumult of the nineteen-sixties. A world full of disjunction, of oddball events that seem to fall out of the sky and into his lap — or, more appropriately, into his field of vision. Graves says, "I found myself, upon discharge, in a city and at a particular historical moment characterized by rebellion and protest against the dangers implicit in too much authority." His modest pictures are refreshing documents of an uneasy time, rich in incident and humanity.

[The Home Front @ Mack Books]
[Kenneth Graves: Dropping In, Tuning Out of the Home Front @ American Suburb X]