Pearson, John. The Sun's Birthday. Photographs by John Pearson. Foreword by Anais Nin.

Doubleday, 1973. Wraps, 1st edition, near fine with just a trace of wear.  111 pages. Color photographs of nature, most by John Pearson, accompanied by quotations from e.e. cumings, John  Burroughs, Rallph Waldo Emerson, Willam Blake, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Loren Eiseley, John Muir, Oscar Wilde, Francois Chateaubriand, and Matsuo Basho. Includes portrait of John Pearson by Karen Pearson.

John Pearson is an American photographer, author, and educator best known for his reflective black-and-white photography and influential photobooks produced during the late 1960s and 1970s. Based in Berkeley, California, Pearson focused his visual study on humanistic, everyday moments of grace, natural simplicity, and counterculture community across the San Francisco Bay Area. His work gained widespread popularity through monochrome photography books such as To Be Nobody Else (1969), Magic Doors (1972), and The Sun's Birthday (1973), which combined poetic quotations with evocative, intimate imagery to explore identity, nature, and self-discovery. Beyond his self-published and popular photobooks, Pearson contributed to educational media and photography workshops, leaving an enduring visual legacy as an empathetic chronicler of mid-century California life and personal transformation.