'Maynard L. Parker'

"Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream" (Yale University Press; $65) presents midcentury homes as captured by Los Angeles architectural photographer. It's an entertaining look at important work, with chapters by Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic of the L.A. Times, and Sam Watters, author of the "Lost L.A." column that ran in The Times' Home section.

December 11, 2012