Exposing the Wilderness: Early Twentieth-Century Adirondack Postcard Photographers

ISBN-10: 0815606087
ISBN-13: 9780815606086
Category: Photography
Pages: 280
Language: English
Published: 1999-10-01
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Author: Robert Bogdan

Description

Robert Bogdan combines a richly descriptive text with striking illustrations to create vivid biographical sketches of these pioneer photographers, who worked their individual styles to illuminate six different regions of the Adirondack Mountains. The book also provides insight into the popular culture of the times mainly through postcards but it also takes an in-depth look at the families and work lives of these artisans as they plied their trade in the popular venue of commercial postcards. Aside from the Adirondack locals and a few postcard connoisseurs, the gifted folk artists and craftspeople profiled here were virtually unknown until now. Bogdan has collected nearly 250 illustrations including postcards and photographs depicting Adirondack life of the time. Many of these images have never before been published.

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