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University of Massachusetts Press Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and
Book SynopsisThis is a cultural biography of a noted photographer and publisher.Based in the Boston area, F. Holland Day (1864-1933) was a central figure in artistic circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Publisher of Oscar Wilde and Stephen Crane, mentor to a young Kahlil Gibran, adviser and friend to photographers Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edward Steichen, Day lived a life devoted to art and beauty. At the turn of the twentieth century, his reputation rivaled that of Alfred Stieglitz.A pioneer in the field of pictorial photography, Day was also an influential book publisher in the Arts and Crafts tradition. He confounded the publishing company of Copeland and Day, which issued more than a hundred titles between 1893 and 1899. In addition, he embraced a unique sense of social responsibility and a commitment to historic preservation.Colorful and sometimes eccentric, Day was best known for his stunningly original, brilliantly executed, and sometimes controversial photographic images of blacks, children, and allegorical subjects. His determination to promote photography as a fine art led him to create photographic representations of the crucifixion of Christ, studies for which he was his own model.Although he continued to mentor young artists until his death, ill health caused Day to spend the last fourteen years of his life inside his home in Norwood, Massachusetts. By the time he died in 1933, he was virtually unknown, but in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in his art.Responding to this renewed interest, Patricia Fanning has written an impressive biography - one that draws on previously unavailable archival material and is attuned to the historical and cultural contexts in which Day lived and worked. The book is illustrated with more than a hundred photographs, including 32 duotone illustrations of the artist's work.Trade ReviewA valuable biography of a man who was significant in a number of ways - New England cultural history, the history of fine art publishing, the history of the American Arts and Crafts movement, and most notably the history of American photography. - Maureen Meister, author of Architecture and the Arts-and-Crafts Movement in Boston: Harvard's H. Langford Warren ""Fanning's extensive historical research and attention to detail makes her book required reading for anyone interested in the artist.... I highly recommend it."" - Kristin Schwain, University of Missouri - Columbia
£34.95
University of Massachusetts Press Artful Lives: The Francis Watts Lee Family and
Book SynopsisFrancis Watts Lee and his family hold a special place in the history of American photography. F. Holland Day completed a series of remarkable photographs of Lee’s daughter Peggy, and the striking portrait of the child and her mother titled Blessed Art Thou among Women is one of Gertrude Käsebier’s most iconic compositions. In Artful Lives, Patricia J. Fanning uses these and other significant images as guideposts to explore the Lee family and the art and culture of their age.A social reform advocate, Francis Watts Lee was an artistic photographer and a talented printer, part of the circle of avant-garde artists and intellectuals who formed Boston’s bohemia. He married twice, first Agnes Rand, an award-winning poet and children’s book author, and later, after their divorce, Marion Lewis Chamberlain, a librarian and MIT-trained architect. Francis and Agnes’s eldest daughter, Peggy, who was so integral to the work of pioneer Pictorialists, died at age seven of juvenile diabetes. Her sister, Alice, who lost her hearing in infancy, became a wood carver and sculptor.Utilizing previously unknown family archives and institutional sources, Fanning traces the Lee family’s story in the context of major artistic, political, social, and religious trends, including the Arts and Crafts movement, Christian Socialism, and Aestheticism, while also showing how their experiences reflected the national culture’s evolving conceptions of family, gender, childhood, medicine, deaf education, and mourning. This richly drawn and gracefully written account of one family informs our understanding of this vibrant era, in Boston and well beyond.Trade ReviewThis book achieves something truly special by demonstrating how creative work happens in the context of mutually supportive relationships. I wish more histories were written in ways that acknowledge this reality. In addition, it is rare to read an informative history that also touches the reader on an emotional level.""—Rachel Snow, University of South Carolina Upstate""This is an intricately researched, beautifully written, compelling, and innovative social history. Fanning makes the stories of an individual family of local and national significance in the 1890s and early 1900s more broadly relevant by paying such careful attention to the many ways in which the lives of each family member are representative of broader trends in American history.""—Libby Bischof, coauthor of Maine in Photographs: A History, 1840–2015
£31.41
Arcadia Publishing Norwood
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History Press Old Parish Cemetery of Norwood Massachusetts
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