Author(s): James McBride

Coffee Table Books

âFamily love is like the wind: instinctive, raw, fragile, beautiful, at times angry, but always unstoppable. It is our last miracle.â So writes James McBride in his Prologue to this first of three volumes of the worldâs most telling photographs. The 100 breathtaking photographs in FAMILY have been chosen from many thousands entered by both professional and amateur photographers from 164 countries in the most ambitious photographic competition ever staged: the M.I.L.K. Collection - Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship, judged by award-winning photographer Elliott Erwitt. These photographs depict the joy, heartbreak and love that shape and make up our lives. ++ Finalist for the Montana Medal for non-fiction (Illustrative) 2002 ++