Michael Rauner is a San Francisco-based photographer, bookmaker and installation artist. His photographs will be published by Chronicle Books in “The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape” a collaboration with author Erik Davis. He has shown his artwork in many places, including Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art, George Eastman House, photo-eye Gallery, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Internationale Fototage in Germany. His artwork and handmade photographic books reside in numerous private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Bancroft Library. His photographs have recently been published in San Francisco: The Political Edge, by City Lights Books, and Picturing Eden by Steidl.

THE VISIONARY STATE: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape by Bay Area photographer Michael Rauner. The show features his extensive series of photographs illustrating Erik Davis’ book of the same name. www.visionarystate.com