A Martime Album – 100 Photographs & their Stories: 100 Photographs and Their Stories - Hardcover

Szarkowski, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300073429 ISBN 13: 9780300073423

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book depicts 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, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters, and much more. In his introduction, John Szarkowski shares his artistic rationale for selecting the particular images that appear in this book. Benson's essays, which accompany the photographs, unify image and story in a vignette of time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning. This book is the catalogue for a traveling exhibition that will open in December 1997 at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia.

About the Author:

John Szarkowski is widely considered the most influential living figure in the field of modern photography. Internationally renowned as a photographer, historian, and author of photographic books, he served as director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until his recent retirement. Richard Benson, dean of the Yale Art School, is a photographer and master technician. He has produced the film for many innovative photographic books and has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award for 1986-1991, Benson is acknowledged as the world's expert on photo-mechanical/photo-electronic reproduction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0300073429
• ISBN 13: 9780300073423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246