A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories
Publisher: Newport News, Virginia: The Mariner's Museum and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300073429
Condition: Fine / Fine
Item #: 102835
$95.00
Specifics
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).
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Description
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."
