Photographs OF England

Brown, Ivor (ed): A Book Of England With 110 Photographs From The Times, London Collins 1958
Very Good

A Book Of England With 110 Photographs From The Times; Brown, Ivor (ed): London, Collins, 1958, 1st ed. Hardcover, black cloth, no dj. 7.25 x 4.5 inches, 511pp, 100 b&w photos. Sound. Tight book, minor white marks on boards, hinges undamaged and firm, gift inscription on ffep. Internally tight and clean. From the sixteenth-century Chronicles of Holinshed to the twentieth-century Manchester Guardian runs the thread from which is woven a "complex tapestry of scene, industry and personality". History, Customs, Places, Character and Comedy contribute to this cavalcade of England seen through her literature. An enchanting book with delightful photographs of the England of 50 years ago. ---------- LOWER SHIPPING RATES THAN QUOTED WILL BE CHARGED----------- SHIPPING WITHIN 24 HOURS --------- First Edition No Jacket Cloth 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

[SW: Topography, England. Verse, Literature]

Details

Scherman, David E. & Wilcox, Richard: Literary England: Photographs of Places Made Memorable in English Literature, New York: Random House, 1944

Hard Cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This book is a development of a Picture Essay on Literary England that appeared in Life Magazine of June 14, 1943. The Pictures are owned by Life and the Copyright by Time Inc., 1944. Manfactured in the United States of America Format Planned by Richard Ellis. A Preface by Christopher Morley. Photos by David E. Sherman and Descriptive Text by Richard Wilcox. Good/No dust jacket; Blue cloth woven boards are faded, bumped but gilt lettering & title box are legible, no owner's names, Interior is clean & solid, Acknowledgments, unpaginated, 50 memorable places w/essay sketches & photos. A FASCINATING read, and very collectible! F Hardcover

[SW: LITERATURE-ENGLISH-ART-PHOTOGRAPHY-PHOTO ESSAYS-ENGLAND-LITERATURE-DESCRIPTIVE TEXT-ESSAYS-PHOTOGRAPHS. SCHERMAN, DAVID E. & WILCOX, RICHARD -"LITERARY ENGLAND; PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLACES MADE MEMORABLE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE"]

Details

LINCOLN, Edwin Hale (1848-1938): Orchids of the North Eastern United States, Photographed from Nature,

Pittsfield, Massachusetts: published by the author, 1931. 2 volumes, folio. (14 x 11 inches). Both volumes with printed title (copyright notice on verso); 1p. foreword (verso blank), 1p. list of genera (versos blank), 2pp. list of scientific and common names (rectos of 2 leaves, versos blank). 84 very fine platinum print photographs (each approximately 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), each mounted on white handmade paper (approximately 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), each mount in turn mounted on stiff gray card with calligraphic manuscript numbering and captions. Red half morocco over red cloth-covered boards by the Harcourt Bindery, Inc. of Boston, the borders between the leather and cloth on the covers delineated by gilt double fillets, titled in gilt on the upper covers, spines in six compartments with raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt tooling, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others panelled in gilt. The rarest published work on the Orchids of the United States, and a very beautiful photo-book: a masterpiece which includes "One life-size print on platinum paper of every orchid known to grow in the United States east of the Mississippi river and north of the parallel of Washington." (Foreword). Only one other copy of Edwin Hale Lincoln's superb and extremely rare collection of platinum print photographs of orchids is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years (Sotheby's New York, 1978, 8 November 1978, lot 310), and OCLC lists only the Massachusetts Horticultural Society copy and a second example in the University of Chicago library. In his foreword to the first volume, the photographer writes, "In the beauty and strangeness of the orchid lies its tragedy as a wild flower, and the rarer the species the greater its danger of ultimate extermination. One purpose only has been considered in compiling these plates, to preserve in permanent form a perfect record of a native botanical family which is the victim of its own loveliness, and is already but a name to many who dwell beside its former haunts." A proto-conservationist, Lincoln was pains-taking in his attempts to photograph each specimen without further endangering the species: with this in mind he would carefully dig up the selected plant, wrap the roots in moss, and return to his studio. Here he replanted his finds, allowing them to continue to grow until they reached their peak. He then took the required photograph using only the natural light from a window in his studio, taking only a single exposure of each plant which was quickly developed and printed by hand on platinum paper. After the exposure was made, the plant was returned unharmed to the spot in the woods where he had found it. This care and attention to the individual plants well-being seems to have suffused the resulting images, which are true "portraits" of individual flowers and plants. The large negatives obviated the need for enlargements; all of the photographs that appear in Wildflowers are contact prints. Lincoln insisted upon platinum paper as the best medium to convey the subtleties of his delicate subjects. Unsurprisingly, Lincoln developed strong connections with the American Arts & Crafts movement, and his work appeared in several issues of Gustave Stickley's The Craftsman. Indeed, Lincoln was a pioneer and his earlier photographs of New England's wild flowers (most if not all taken prior to 1914) can be viewed as elegant precursors to the "straight" and "pure" modernist photographs produced in the later 1920s and 1930s by Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and other members of the loosely associated Group f.64. Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848 - 1938) was born in Westminster, Massachusetts. Following service in the Civil War as a drummer boy and work as a page in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, he entered the photographic profession in Brockton in 1876. His early work included photographing yachts under full sail and documenting large estates. He visited Lenox initially in 1883 and moved permanently to the Berkshire area ten years later. His move coincided with the height of the development of Berkshire's "Summer Cottages," and Lincoln photographed many of these grand structures in the following years. Also at the end of the 19th-century, Lincoln began what was to become his best known work: an extensive study of New England wild flowers, all photographed with a large-format view camera. Self-published between 1910 and 1914 in sixteen parts, the eight volumes of this magnificent work consisted of 400 platinum prints on individual mounts with printed captions, and titled Wild Flowers of New England Photographed from Nature. Cf. William B. Becker "Permanent Authentic Records: The Arts & Crafts Photographs of Edwin Hale Lincoln," in History of Photography: an International Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, January 1989; cf. Keith Davis An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, second edition, (Kansas City, 1999), pp. 57-58; cf. Lisa Bush Hankin'No Record So True': The Wildflower Photographs of Edwin Hale Lincoln, 1848-1938, September 19-October 26, 20O2.(Richard York Gallery Exhibition Catalogue); cf. A Persistence of Vision: photographs by Edwin Hale Lincoln. (Lenox, Ma., 1981). (Lenox Library Association / Berkshire Museum Exhibition Catalogue); OCLC 43112766.

[SW: Botany 21427.jpg]

Details

FOX, JON GILBERT (PHOTOGRAPHS); HEBERT, ERENEST (TEXT). New Hampshire Patterns. University Press of New England, Lebanon: 2007. ISBN: 1584655259

144 pages. Photographs and text that bring contemporary New Hampshire to life. For most people familiar with New Hampshire, the Granite State has two distinct identities. New Hampshire is often depicted as a place of picturesque farms, mountains, forests, and postcard-perfect villages with pretty town commons and colonial era houses. Yet for most of the twentieth century, such New Hampshire cities and towns as Manchester, Berlin and Keene developed small-scale urban industrialized societies dominated by textile, woolen, and paper mills. In the twenty-first century, New Hampshire's duality has given way to a far more varied identity. Radical demographic and economic changes have transformed entire regions. Some towns in Southern New Hampshire have doubled and tripled in size, serving as bedroom communities for greater Boston. Increased property development in the two lakes regions and the Upper Valley continue to transform small town rural life in unexpected ways. This book offers two personal looks at a state whose venerable history stands in lively contrast to its changing times. Over a hundred full-color photographs by Jon Gilbert Fox capture the charm of small town parades and agricultural fairs, as well as the uniqueness of such traditional New Hampshire places as Franconia Notch, Strawbery Banke, and Canterbury Shaker Village. Fox also brings to vivid life more recent cultural phenomena, including the NASCAR races at Loudon and Laconia's annual motorcycle week. Complementing Fox's visual appreciation of New Hampshire are ten essays by Ernest Hebert, one of the state's most beloved native sons. Hebert, a lifelong citizen of New Hampshire, weaves personal experience and family traditions into essays that include meditations on the (former) Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire politics, baseball, motorcycles, fly fishing, moose, yard sales, chopping wood, and more. Taken together, Fox's photographs and Hebert's text provide an elegant and richly textured salute to the Granite State. "For the true heart and soul of New Hampshire, I recommend absorbing this combination of Ernie Hebert's essays and Jon Fox's equally enlightening photographs. Provocative, personal, and quite moving, it's a must for anyone, anywhere, who loves New England." NJudson D. Hale, Sr., editor-in-chief, Yankee magazine. JON GILBERT FOX has been taking photographs professionally for over thirty years. His photographs have been published in such diverse venues as U. S. New & World Report, The New York Times, House and Garden, Playboy, Vogue, Scholastic Magazine, Vermont Life, Scientific American, Focus, The Washington Post, and Cond Nast Traveler. He is the author/photographer of Intimate Vermont (UPNE, 2005). A professor of English at Dartmouth College, ERNEST HEBERT is a well-known New Hampshire novelist. Hebert's critically acclaimed The Old American was hailed by Kirkus Reviews as "a brilliant work" and by Alan Cheuse on National Public Radio as a "deeply appealing novel." Earlier Darby novelsNThe Dogs of March, Live Free or Die, and The Kinship (a one-volume edition of A Little More Than Kin and The Passion of Estelle Jordon)Nare available in paperback from Hardscrabble Books/UPNE. His most recent Darby novel is Spoonwood (UPNE, 2005). Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: New England, John Gilbert Fox, Manchester, Ernest Herbert, New Hampshire, Berlin, Keene, Franconia Notch, Textile Mills, Strawbery Bank, Canterbury Shaker Village, NASCAR, Loudon, Laconia, Old Man of the Mountain, Granite State, Photography).]

Details