23543b. Szarkowski, John and Richard Benson. A MARITIME ALBUM – 100 Photographs and their Stories. Newport News. 1997.
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23543b. Szarkowski, John and Richard Benson. A MARITIME ALBUM – 100 Photographs and their Stories. Newport News. 1997.
23543b. Szarkowski, John and Richard Benson. A MARITIME ALBUM – 100 Photographs and their Stories. Newport News. 1997. 245 p. Soft wraps. A wonderful photographic tribute to the sea and the human activities associated with it, and an insight into the life of a mariner. This fascinating book features 100 historical photographs taken between the years 1859 and 1956 that depict the relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Superb vintage photographs chronicle 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. Excellent vintage views and accounts make fine reading. Well done. (VG+). $28.