Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image
Seneca Ray Stoddard's photographic and literary work paralleled the era of exploration of this region as well as the early years of photography. It was during his lifetime-as a result of the changing perceptions of the wilderness-that the area first attracted artists, tourists, and summer residents. Jeffrey L. Horrell's book explores the nature ......
This book features colour and b&w photographs taken in 1965-69 during family holidays to Spain and Portugal. The emphasis is on broad- and narrow-gauge steam, but diesel and electric-power locomotives are also featured, as are trams and trolleybuses. The photos are accompanied by extensive commentaries.
A photo-book created by an internationally renowned authority from his own archive that covers the railways of Northern England (both BR & Industrial) in the mid-1950s and 1960s. It is full of stunning images of yesteryear in both colour and black & white, virtually all unpublished, and is accompanied with extensive and informative commentaries.
Photographs from The Historic New Orleans Collection
Louisiana Lens surveys 180 years of photographic encounters with one of Americas most evocative regions: from early daguerreotypes of New Orleans landmarks to haunting post-Civil War landscapes to born-digital photographs documenting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Unique visual exploration of the glorious county of Dorset. Let this new collection of 500 stunning, full colour photographs of Dorset guide you around this beautiful southern region of England. In this unique visual exploration you will discover the stories behind this ancient landscape through the photography of the coastline, landmarks ......
In the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have combed the site of today's Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for evidence that might clarify the controversial events of June 1876. In Photographing Custer's Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an ......
Permissions documents Emma Hardy's family over a period of more than twenty years. As the artist's children grew into adulthood, she turned her gaze towards her own mother, re-examining their relationship through a lens.
Across the West and Toward the North compares how photographers in Norway and the United States represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed, developed, and photographed. Making images while traversing almost inaccessible terrain-often on foot and for months at a ......
Across the West and Toward the North compares how photographers in Norway and the United States represented the environment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when once-remote wildernesses were first surveyed, developed, and photographed. Making images while traversing almost inaccessible terrain-often on foot and for months at a ......
