Description
Book SynopsisWidely acknowledged as the leading architectural photographer of Northern California, the late Morley Baer had an enduring passion for photographing barns. This book makes available fine-arts quality prints of 68 extraordinary black-and-white photographs of California barns.
Trade Review"Baer's lofty reputation as a photographer is amply justified by the images that are so handsomely displayed in
California Plain." --
L.A.Times.com" . . . [His] focus, among others, was the extraordinary nature of the most ordinary barns. Plain and simple. . . . Morley's most luminescent images reveal as much about the man as they do about the subjects, themselves." --
The Monterey County Herald"Something impelled Morley Baer to capture these soulful images from 1951 to 1994, riding the backwoods, with his equipment, coming over the hill, seeing the structure, driving about it, waiting (sometimes waiting hours) for a single exposure, to capture it at its most lonely and lovely best . . . .He was a professional, and he carefully shot, carefully developed, carefully marked these treasures, driven to record the history of our land, these glorious edifices out of the sould of America." --
RALPH"
California Plain—Remembering Barns, a book of photography by the late Morley Baer of Carmel and edited by his widow, Frances Baer, is proof of why Morley Baer was known as his generation's premier architectural photographer of Northern California." --
The Carmel Pine Cone"These 65 fine-quality black-and-white photographs, dating from 1951 to 1994, reveal a true reverence for and love of rural architecture. . . . This is not just a regional book; it should be purchased for photography collections and wherever there are still farms and agrarian living or for readers who can appreciate simpler, less complicated lives. Highly recommended." --
Library Journal"[Baer] displays a command of both camera and subject that elevates his work from photo documentation to hight art." --
L.A.Times.com
