| Between the Landscape and Its Other
     
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Hardcover
160 pages
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published 1993
From Library Journal
Vanderbilt (1905-92), who called himself an "iconographer," is perhaps best known for his work organizing such collections of historical photographs as the Farm Security Administration archives at the Library of Congress and other collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, where he served as archivist and curator. This book sums up his life's work as a photographer and analyst of photographic metaphor. In it, he pairs historical photographs (mostly portraits and interiors) with his own landscape work to suggest intuitive connections that are frequently too subtle for even the most dedicated reader. His own text--philosophical, evocative, and poetic--includes quotations from James Agee, Robert Frost, Ben Shahn, and others. This highly personal and idiosyncratic work will interest those who appreciate Vanderbilt's important contribution to historical research using photographs.
- Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Book News, Inc.
The culmination of the author's experiments over 30 years in combining photographs of quite different character and then considering them as groups rather than singly, this volume features 50 of the famous pairings of his landscape photographs from the 1960s with archival photographs from the renowned collection he developed for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Vanderbilt's evocative captions complete a three-part creative unit "based on pure intuition." Throughout,... read more |
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