‘From the Heart: The Photographs of Brian Lanker’

The book jacket features a photo from Lanker's ‘A Day in the Life of Australia’ book project.

1 The book jacket features a photo from Lanker's ‘A Day in the Life of Australia’ book project. 2 A dairy farmer's barn in Bern, Kansas, 1973.

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A dairy farmer's barn in Bern, Kansas, 1973.

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An exhausted football player, 1971.

The Pentagram team also established the sequencing and pacing of the color and black-and-white imagery shot in a variety of formats and divided up the sections of the book with spreads featuring quotes from Lanker’s vast network of admirers.

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A café for LIFE magazine's special report, “One Day in the Life of America”, 1974.

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Image of a flag on a hanger at the Chase County Courthouse in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, 1970.

1 A café for LIFE magazine's special report, “One Day in the Life of America”, 1974. 2 Image of a flag on a hanger at the Chase County Courthouse in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, 1970. 3 A groundbreaking, 1969.

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A groundbreaking, 1969.

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Lanker documents the birth of a baby for a photo from 1972.

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The actress Ruby Dee photographed for Lanker's book ‘I Dream a World,’ 1986.

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Civil rights heroine Septima Poinsette Clark photographed for ‘I Dream a World,’ 1987.

4 Lanker documents the birth of a baby for a photo from 1972. 5 The actress Ruby Dee photographed for Lanker's book ‘I Dream a World,’ 1986. 6 Civil rights heroine Septima Poinsette Clark photographed for ‘I Dream a World,’ 1987.