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Transition documents what was happening in the streets during the final turbulent months of the Trump administration, from the historic election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris through the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection and the most surreal inauguration day the nation has ever seen.

Washington, D.C.’s top street photographers documented the tumultuous presidential inauguration of Donald J. Trump, which was met with rioting, peaceful civil disobedience and one of the largest protest marches in U.S. history.

This book documents the spectrum of emotions, the crowds, the traffic jams, the revelers and the moments that remind us what it was like the day the sun disappeared over America.