A maritime album : 100 photographs and their stories / photograph selection & introduction by John Szarkowski ; essays by Richard Benson.

Main entry:

Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.), issuing body, publisher.

Title & Author:

A maritime album : 100 photographs and their stories / photograph selection & introduction by John Szarkowski ; essays by Richard Benson.

Publication:

Newport News, Virginia : Mariners' Museum ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [1997]
©1997

Description:

245 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0300073429 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300073423 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300073992 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300073997 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
091737648X (Mariner's Museum ; pbk.)
9780917376481 (Mariner's Museum ; pbk.)

Subject:

Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.) Photograph collections Catalogs.
Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va) Photograph collections.
Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.)
Photography of ships Catalogs.
Photograph collections Virginia Newport News Catalogs.
Photographie de navires.
Collections de photographies Virginie Newport News.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photograph collections
Photography of ships
Foto's.
Schepen.
Virginia Newport News

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues (form)
museum catalogs.

Added entries:

Szarkowski, John, compiler, writer of introduction.
Benson, Richard, 1943-2017, writer of added commentary.
Hightower, John B. (John Brantley), 1933-2013, writer of foreword.
Gambell, John, book designer.
Yale University Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 193119
Call No.: ID TR670.5.M3; ID:97-B4182
Status: Available

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