Early days in the Adirondacks : the photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard / [edited] by Jeanne Winston Adler ; foreword by John Wilmerding.

Main entry:

Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917.

Title & Author:

Early days in the Adirondacks : the photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard / [edited] by Jeanne Winston Adler ; foreword by John Wilmerding.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1997.

Description:

179 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm

Notes:
T.p. appears on p. 15.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.

Summary:

"Beginning more than a century ago, a photographer named Seneca Ray Stoddard explored and documented the Adirondacks in a series of brilliant black-and-white images. This book presents the first major collection of that work." "Stoddard, who grew up on the outskirts of the region, came to know its varied glories by hiking, camping, and canoeing its length and breadth. He pictured not just the softly rounded peaks of the area, the mirrored lakes, and pine-decked groves, but the burgeoning and popular hotels, the local guides with their indigenous craft (the elegant Adirondack guide boats), the loggers, hunters, and legions of rusticators who rushed up each summer from New York City, Philadelphia, and elsewhere to experience a wild and beautiful America that was already disappearing." "John Wilmerding sets the scene by placing Stoddard's work in the artistic context of its time. In her important survey of Stoddard's achievement, Jeanne Winston Adler traces the artist's life and times, from a boyhood near Albany and Troy, through an apprenticeship as a decorative painter of railway carriages, to his growing mastery of photographic technique."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0810908972 (clothbound)
9780810908970 (clothbound)

Subject:

Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917.
Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917 Biography.
Landscapes New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Pictorial works.
Landscape photography New York (State) Adirondack Mountains.
Photographers New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Biography.
Paysages New York (État) Adirondack, Monts Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de paysages New York (État) Adirondack, Monts.
Photographes New York (État) Adirondack, Monts Biographies.
Landscape photography.
Landscapes.
Photographers.
Landscape New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Pictorial works.
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) History Pictorial works.
Adirondack, Monts (N.Y.) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (State) Adirondack Mountains.

Form/genre:

Biography.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Biographies.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Adler, Jeanne Winston, 1946-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193356
Call No.: ID F127.A2.S764; ID:97-B4410
Status: Available

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