This work, culled from the archives of The Mariners' Museum, features 100 historical photographs depicting the relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Each photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years shipbuilding, and the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, and naval encounters. In his introduction, Szarkowski shares his artistic rationale for selecting the particular images that appear in the book. The mix is ...
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This work, culled from the archives of The Mariners' Museum, features 100 historical photographs depicting the relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Each photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years shipbuilding, and the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, and naval encounters. In his introduction, Szarkowski shares his artistic rationale for selecting the particular images that appear in the book. The mix is eclectic - some are the work of photographers, while for others the photographer was a chronicler with a camera and an eye for composition. Richard Benson applies electronic and other techniques to the archival photographs. His essays unify the image and story in time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by numerous (mostly unknown) 19th-20th-century photographers. Photograph selection and introduction by John Szarkowski. Essays by Richard Benson. Includes a checklist and notes on the plates. Designed by John Gambell, New Haven, Connecticut. 248 pp., with 100 duotone plates. 11-1/4 x 9-3/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories at the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia (traveled to numerous venues). Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: "This book, featuring 100 photographs culled from the archives of the Mariner's Museum, depicts the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea....[E]ach photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years--shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters and much more....Benson's essays, which accompany the photographs, unify image and story in a richly evocative vignette of time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning."
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New. 0300073429. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED---Corresponds to ASIN: B0027GYVY6. 245 pages, 100 photos, 4to. --with a bonus offer--
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