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Book Seneca Ray Stoddard in the Adirondacks with Camera

Download or read book Seneca Ray Stoddard in the Adirondacks with Camera written by Seneca Ray Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adirondacks

Download or read book Adirondacks written by S. R. Stoddard and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heavily illustrated tour guide to the Adirondacks region was originally published in 1874. Stoddard, professional photographer and native of upstate New York, provides witty descriptions and practical information for visitors.

Book Seneca Ray Stoddard  Versatile Camera artist

Download or read book Seneca Ray Stoddard Versatile Camera artist written by Maitland C. De Sormo and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Days in the Adirondacks

Download or read book Early Days in the Adirondacks written by Abrams and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stoddard, who grew up on the outskirts of the region, came to know its varied glories by hiking, camping, and canoeing its length and breadth.

Book Adirondack Vernacular

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Bogdan
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780815607816
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Adirondack Vernacular written by Robert Bogdan and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry M. Beach was a prolific and accomplished upstate New York photographer who documented the North Country during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Although much less known and celebrated, Beach's work is as important to the twentieth-century Adirondacks as Seneca Ray Stoddard's is to the nineteenth century. Illustrated with over 250 examples of his work including ten panoramic foldouts, this book covers the range of Beach's subject matter. Robert Bogdan's lively and accessible approach to the photographer's work encourages the reader to explore the North Country's people and places through Beach's photography and life. Although Beach's postcard pictures and other photographs were taken to sell in bulk to hotel managers, tourist shop owners, and other retail merchants, they are not just mass-produced, stylized, pretty pictures. Beside the bubbling brooks and shady woodland paths are factory boomtowns and paper mills belching pollution. As the rails brought increasing numbers of middle-class tourists to the Adirondacks, the wealthy created their own exclusive wilderness playground. Beach photographed dandy visitors at play as well as manual laborers sweating in the forest, logging camps, factories, mines, and construction sites. Images of "great camps" sit next to modest abodes, small stores, and family-owned resorts. Pictures of trains in scenic surroundings give way to mangled wrecks after tragic railroad accidents. In addition to standard view cards, he produced montages and advertisement postcards serious visual commentary as well as lighthearted picture play. Beach's best works stir the heart and provoke the imagination, and his whimsical, down-to-earth approach to photography produced images that are a treat to the eye.

Book In Stoddard s Footsteps

Download or read book In Stoddard s Footsteps written by Mark Bowie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after Stoddard focused his cameras on the region, Bowie followed in his footsteps, re-photograph- ing the locations of his classic images. Recipient: Adirondack Literary Award, Best Photography Book.

Book Seneca Ray Stoddard

Download or read book Seneca Ray Stoddard written by William Crowley and published by Am. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photography and biography of Seneca Ray Stoddard.

Book Seneca Ray Stoddard

Download or read book Seneca Ray Stoddard written by Jeffrey L. Horrell and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of this Adirondack pioneer’s work and examines how it influenced and was influenced by the changing attitudes toward wilderness in the last half of the nineteenth century. It is the first complete volume to provide an in-depth study of both Stoddard’s writing and photography. Through his photographs and publishing ventures, Stoddard moved from recording the wilderness landscape to defending it against the logging industry and other developers. Stoddard was instrumental in creating the modern perception of the “forever wild” landscape of the Adirondacks. Although there had been a well-established tradition of guidebooks for American tourist regions, Stoddard’s practice of including illustrations based on photographs represented a new departure. Horrell shows how Stoddard’s work reflected matters of class and power on the emerging tourist industry and its effect on the popular literature of the day.

Book Adirondack Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nathan Farb
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Adirondack Wilderness written by Nathan Farb and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception as "forever wild" in the 1880s, New York's Adirondack Park has served as a model of conservation for the world. The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization devoted to protecting the diversity of life on Earth and preeminent Adirondack photographer Nathan Farb here team up to reveal feats of nature that the human eye on its own would not perceive. In the tradition of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter, Farb renders the most miniscule detail as clearly as the grandest vista.

Book The Adirondack Architecture Guide  Southern Central Region

Download or read book The Adirondack Architecture Guide Southern Central Region written by Janet A. Null and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region provides a professional and insightful survey of the built environment of a unique area within New York's Adirondack Park. This book is the first field guide to the architecture of the Park, revealing the ordinary and the extraordinary, the remarkable buildings by prominent designers, as well as the hidden, unexpected gems few know exist. Based on more than seven thousand miles of fieldwork and years of research, the guide comprises more than seven hundred sites traversing the geographic range, socioeconomic strata, and historical span of the region from the late 1700s to the present. Organized according to clearly marked travel routes and fourteen tours on the ground and on the water, it features detailed maps and coordinates for each site, along with many beautiful photographs. Also included are eleven companion essays drawing on the expertise of professionals, local historians, and Adirondack residents that delve into the what, where, and why people built in the Adirondacks.

Book Photographing Flowers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harold Davis
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2011-09-15
  • ISBN : 0240820738
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Photographing Flowers written by Harold Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: "This book is about flower photographic techniques using a macro lens"--

Book The Adirondacks

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  • Author : Gary A. Randorf
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2002-07-29
  • ISBN : 9780801869532
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Gary A. Randorf and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-07-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred full-color photographs illustrate this history and current health of upstate New York's Adirondack Park, the first private-public partnership dedicated to the protection of a U.S. wilderness area. "Here is the first lesson about the Adirondacks, captured in Gary Randorf's magnificent photos. It is not only alpine granite—in fact, of the park's six million acres, only about eighty-five, scattered on top of the tallest mountains, are that gorgeous pseudo-Arctic. Aside from the touristed High Peaks, the Adirondacks comprise millions upon millions of acres of Low Peaks, of beavery draws and bearish woods, of hills and hills and hills, countless drainages and muddy ponds . . . The second point about the Adirondacks, a glory carefully revealed in the words and pictures of this book, is that it represents a second-chance wilderness and, as such, a hope that the damage caused by human beings is not irreversible. It is metaphor as much as place."—from the foreword by Bill McKibben In The Adirondacks: Wild Island of Hope, Gary A. Randorf offers 100 photographs to illustrate this unique, comprehensive history and natural history of the Adirondack Park, the first private-public partnership in the United States dedicated to the protection of a wilderness area. Situated in northeast New York, this regional park of six million acres represents a unique blend of public wildlands intermixed with commercial forests, farms, mines, private parks, prisons, scattered homes, dozens of villages, and a year-round population of 130,000. The ongoing attempts over the last century to make the Adirondacks a park have made this region a "striving ground" for living with the land, rather than outside or above it. Much of the strife is over finding a right relationship to the land, treating it not as a commodity to be exploited but as a community to which all living things belong and upon which all depend. Today, the Adirondacks regional park with its six million acres "represents a second-chance wilderness"—as Bill McKibben writes in his foreword to this book. The concerns of this park are the same concerns that apply to all of America's parks, recreational areas, and wildernesses with the addition of how to maintain the fragile peace between human and natural communities. How that "second-chance" can be realized is the focus of Gary Randorf's text and stunning color photographs.

Book Adventures in the Wilderness

Download or read book Adventures in the Wilderness written by William Henry Harrison Murray and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contested Terrain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip G. Terrie
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780815605706
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Contested Terrain written by Philip G. Terrie and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks. Outlining the disputes for the control of the land, the author introduces the key players from the residents, landholders, to preservationists and developers.

Book Panther Gorge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin MacKenzie
  • Publisher : MudRat Publications
  • Release : 2019-08-13
  • ISBN : 9780578480619
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Panther Gorge written by Kevin MacKenzie and published by MudRat Publications. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panther Gorge explores the history one of the most remote regions in New York's Adirondack High Peak region. Two thousand feet deep and riddled with sheer cliffs, the chasm lies between Mts. Marcy and Haystack, the state's first and third highest points. A surprisingly rich history begins on a pathless landscape and includes visits by the earliest Adirondack pioneers including surveyor Verplanck Colvin, guides O.S. Phelps and Jim Goodwin, author Alfred B. Street, and a host of others. Panther Gorge also documents the author's explorations into the region during the period from 2009-2018 to pioneer new rock and ice climbs. Detailed narratives, over 170 color photographs, maps, and route plates allow the reader to vicariously experience one of the most mysterious places in the Adirondack high country.

Book Cranberry Lake and Wanakena

Download or read book Cranberry Lake and Wanakena written by Susan Thomas Smeby and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the northwest corner of the Adirondack Park lie Cranberry Lake and the village of Wanakena. This remote area was the last-settled part of New York State; from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, its name evoked the very essence of wilderness. Initially, sportsmen, naturalists, and artists flocked to the area. By 1900, summer tourism was booming. The logging industry followed, to harvest the virgin timber; after that, the state purchased the mostly cleared lands. Today, seventy-five percent of the lake's shoreline is state owned, and the Five Ponds Wilderness, south of Wanakena, is one of the largest and wildest areas in the Adirondacks.

Book Adirondack Waters

Download or read book Adirondack Waters written by Mark Bowie and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-ever book devoted entirely to the park's myriad waters presents a stunning portfolio of waterscapes in images and word.