Download or read book Maine Photography written by Libby Bischof and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine has always played a rich and varied role in the art of photography. For hundreds of years, photographers, like other artists, have made their way to Maine to capture the natural beauty and human culture of the state. So, too, have many photographers come from Maine, and many contributions by Mainers have been made to the medium. Maine in Photography is the first comprehensive overview of the history of photography in the state. Providing basic knowledge of the most important people and institutions to have promoted photography, this volume also studies the ways in which photography has informed the understanding of the social and cultural history of Maine. Beginning with the earliest daguerreotype portraits of the 1840s, this history traces the growth of the medium—emphasizing key contributions, such as the Stanley brothers’ invention of the dry plate process—through to the present. Key topics addressed throughout the book include the importance of photography in documenting labor and economic life, the close relationship between photography and the growth of tourism, and the role of Maine photographers in advancing the medium as a fine art form. Published in conjunction with the Maine Photo Project, this is a unique and timely addition to the body of work on the importance of Maine to American art.
Download or read book The Oldest State Portraits of a Maine Generation written by Jason Paige Smith and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographically speaking, Maine is the oldest state in the nation. In his book, The Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation, photographer Jason Paige Smith has created compelling, storytelling images of people from around the state who are still out doing incredible things, despite their age. His book not only tells the stories of these inspiring individuals, but also gives great insight into the lives they've lived.
Download or read book Maine written by Terrell S. Lester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine is a place that inspires lifelong devotion in visitors and residents alike. It is a place that encompasses many worlds within its boundaries--mountains and lakes, rivers and forests, a dramatic coastline--and supports a unique way of life influenced by both geography and climate. Maine: The Seasons captures the rugged beauty and spirit of Maine by taking us into its very heart, through images and words. Featuring 127 color photographs by acclaimed landscape photographer Terrell S. Lester, and original essays by four celebrated writers--Elizabeth Strout on spring, Ann Beattie on summer, Richard Russo on autumn, and Richard Ford on winter--Maine: The Seasons gives us a richly evocative, visually glorious appreciation of the look, the feeling, the essence, of Maine.
Download or read book The Rangeleys written by Ben Pearson and published by benpearsonphotography. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encompasses the region’s six major lakes — Aziscohos, Kennebago, Mooselookmeguntic, Rangeley, Richardson, and Parmachenee — as well as the mountains, ponds, and rivers that surround them. It is presented one lake at a time, interspersed with side trips to the sights and activities you find, or do, around a Rangeley region lake, mountain, or stream. It’s an eclectic journey, taking things as they come, expected or unexpected, which is the best way to explore the Rangeleys.
Download or read book The Wyeths written by Newell Convers Wyeth and published by Gambit Incorporated Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces and development and flowering of the "Wyeth tradition" over the course of several generations. -- Amazon.com.
Download or read book Night Train at Wiscasset Station written by Lew Dietz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night Train at Wiscasset Station blends the talents of two highly respected observers of Maine.Although Kosti Ruohomaa's photographic career took him to many distant places, he kept returning home to photograph the enduring people and lifeways of small-town Maine.The late Lew Dietz wrote 19 books about conservation, natural history, and the Maine outdoors.
Download or read book Maine on Glass written by W H Bunting and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Maine--famed for its lumbering, shipbuilding, and seafaring--has attracted copious attention from historians, but early twentieth-century Maine has not. Maine on Glass redresses this imbalance with 190 postcard photos and three of Maine's foremost historians. MWPA Maine Literary Award Finalist John N. Cole Award for Maine-Themed Nonfiction2017 book award from the New England Society of the City of New York
Download or read book Northern Maine with Paul Cyr written by Paul Cyr and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography of northern Maine captured by Paul Cyr
Download or read book Sightings written by Peter Ralston and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he was a young man finding his way in the world, award-winning photographer Peter Ralston was introduced to the beautiful and austere coast of Maine by his friends Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. It was an introduction that was to change his life forever. In Maine's coastal communities, and especially on its islands, Ralston found what every artist is looking for: a place to spend a creative lifetime, a subject that embodies every element of human experience. Includes an afterword by Betsy and Andrew Wyeth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Download or read book A Day s Work written by and published by Tilbury House Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing collection of historic photos is accompanied by narrative captions that inform and entertain. There is much that can be learned from the details of a photograph, and Bunting leads the eye with extraordinary skill as we see a lumber batteaux working a log jam, granite-cutting operations, an eccentric cobbler traveling from island to island by sailing scow, train wrecks, lumber camps, coastwise cargo schooners, deepwater ships, and much more. Bunting's text places the images in social and economic context, but this is not dry history; his research has uncovered a wealth of fascinating detail, and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.
Download or read book The Winter Coast of Maine written by Ed Kenney and published by Seapoint Books. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Winter Coast of Maine" is the first fine art book dedicated to color photographs of Maine's coastal landscape made exclusively during the coldest months - a time of year that most visitors and summer residents rarely get to see. The Maine coast is a place of exquisite beauty at all times of year, but especially in winter. The topography of this region ranges from long sandy beaches in the south to tall granite headlands in the area known as "Down East." Photographer and Maine resident Ed Kenney has spent the last decade compiling a portfolio of stunning images capturing the essence of a coast that is at times serene and still, and at other times ferocious, stormy, and bitterly cold. A photographer for over a half century, Ed Kenney can barely recall a time when a camera was not close at hand. His skills were honed using a succession of film cameras that began with a Kodak Hawkeye and progressed over the years to an Arca Swiss 4x5. Although the view camera still sees occasional use, these days almost all capture is digital on high resolution sensors matched with the finest lenses. Thirty-three year National Geographic veteran Sam Abell has written the foreword to this volume in which he asks: "Was summer fiction? No, but without summer's growth the winter declares a hard granitic truth: All else is temporary." The luminous photographs gathered here forcefully make the case that while some things pass, many things seem eternal on "The Winter Coast of Maine."
Download or read book Dear Maine written by Reza Jalali and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state senator, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, recounts the trails and triumphs of 20 immigrants who have arrived in Maine over the past few decades. Dear Maine includes black and white photographic portraits by Lilit Danielyan.
Download or read book Homeless in a Land of Plenty written by Mark Schumann and published by . This book was released on 2022-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeless in a Land of Plenty is a photography book documenting the current homelessness across America. All of the were made between 2015 and 2020, in more than seventy cities across America.
Download or read book Seacoast Maine written by and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Still, the real rationale of a book like this is to validate the vision and the work of an artist, and this ambition is more than justified by page after page of dauntingly beautiful images, carefully arranged and faultlessly printed. If Maine is a state you hold dear, this is a book that says it all."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Maine written by Eliot Porter and published by New York Graphic Society. This book was released on 1986 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of color photography offers a collection of photographs of coastal Maine that reflect man's created environment as well as the eternal beauty of land and sea
Download or read book Wild Maine written by Bill Silliker and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Maine is not only a book of outstanding images of wild mammals and birds from around the state, but it is also a collection of anecdotes and amusing stories about photographer Bill Silliker's interactions with wildlife. Includes interesting facts and observations about the behavior of the species that Silliker photographed.
Download or read book Maine Places Maine Faces written by and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With images from the beaches to the Canadian border, this is one of the most beautiful collections of Maine landscapes and portraits ever published."
