Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Victorian Fashion in America: 264 Vintage Photographs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)

Victorian Fashion in America: 264 Vintage Photographs (Dover Fashion and Costumes) Review



Compelling pictorial archive of 264 vintage photographs, selected from rare tintypes and other authentic materials (1850s–1910), depict little girls in their mothers' hats and clothes, sisters wearing identical plaid dresses and button boots, a young man in an everyday suit and bowler hat, a boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and scores of other.


Sunday, December 25, 2011

Ruin: Photographs of a Vanishing America

Ruin: Photographs of a Vanishing America Review



Brian Vanden Brink is one of America's most sought-after architectural photographers. He is also drawn to the mystery and unexpected beauty found in abandoned architecture. Here Vanden Brink captures and illuminates in stunning black and white images abandoned structures such as mills, bridges, grain elevators, churches, and storefronts-structures that once were important and useful. With text by historic preservation expert Howard Mansfield, this collection of photos grants permanence to places that may soon vanish forever.