Lynwood (Images of America
354413
Great book. My family and I grow- up there. Great place to raise a healthy loving family. Enjoyed sharing the pictures with family and friends.
4755991
Images of America Green-Wood Cemetery certainly did give me a chairside, in depth, glimpse of the landmark cemetery. This book is a treasure of antique photos exploring the magnificant grounds of Green-Wood. I've been to this cemetery many times,but never did I see all these marvels that Alexandra managed to capture in one book. I can't wait to return in the spring, to see some of these monuments from a past time up close. This is a great guide for the seasoned traveler or New Yorker, who thinks they've seen it all. Pick up this book for your own historical tour of Green-Wood. It's beautiful in the spring.
3205243
For any family who had ancestors who lived and worked in the great Pine Island Oil patch, this is a must.  A great collection of historical photographs representing the communities of Trees, Oil City, Vivian, and Rodessa, Louisiana.  I actually found a rare photo of my great grandfather's residence, and many more relevant of the period.
2445423
This is another beautiful collection of Photographic Art. This time the objects are churches. The photos are brilliant in color and lighting. The varied and unusual architecture is fascinating. I have enjoyed perusing this book as much as the&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Victorian-Houses-of-Mississippi/dp/1578067812/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Victorian Houses of Mississippi</a>
1242826
Wonderful images from lantern slides taken by an amazing lady - Mary T.S Schaffer.  The text is equally captivating.  My hat's off to this important historical and artistic book. I hope to retrace her steps someday with my Pony Premo 6 4x5 camera and imagine what it was like in the Canadian Rockies more than 100 years ago.
2854639
Great photos contributed from private collections. These were an insight on life in Cedar Rapids at the time its origin.
1266756
Barbara Norfleet concentrates on a rather under-appreciated aspect of American photography, the local commercial photo studio found in most towns across the country.  This book is an extension of her first book `The Champion Pig', which examined  studio photography from 1929 to 1960.  `When We Liked Ike', with 170 excellent photos, covers the years from 1945.  The author explains how these photos were taken to please those who commissioned them and they basically show the attitudes, values and aspirations of the white middle class.  There are plenty of family gatherings and social events but also examples of outdoor commercial activity, the Florida studio of Joe Steinmetz  produced excellent architectural work like the drive-in hamburger unit on page 126.

Nearly every photo is worth studying for the detail they contain, they are not blurred, grainy or gimmicky, this is a record of what the subject wanted (and paid for) not how the photographer felt about the subject.  The only details provided about the images are the photographer's name and sometimes a date, this lack of information can be annoying at times, page eighty-seven shows a woman smoking a pipe, her head surrounded by smoke, just why did Jack Gould take this picture in 1946?  Page thirty-three shows a (pin-sharp) photo of a traffic jam in Main Street, Somewhere USA, why was this moment captured for ever?

The book is well designed and printed though I think the cover design is unimaginative and the photo (two senior citizens in swimwear enjoying a smoke) rather inappropriate to sum up post-war America.  As well as the fascinating `The Champion Pig', `Wedding' is another Barbara Norfleet book using work of the local studio photographer.

***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
2604932
This is an amazing book. It captures America at its finest and also not-so finest, but thats America for you. "They" say a picture says 1,000 words but there are so many pictures in this book that capture life at its fullest and these pictures say a million words. I rented the book from the library for the longest time and kept renewing it because I enjoyed looking at it so often, and finally I bought my own- and several others like Missouri 24/7, California 24/7, florida 24/7... etc. This is something that should be sitting on your coffee table, or at least something you look through once.
4515973
This book is a fabulous photographic piece on the Lincoln assasination, covering the events and the people involved.  The artifacts that are pictured are truly excellent examples. The quality of the photographs make for a wonderful book with great content.  Many of the photos included have never been seen before.  Swanson and Weinberg have put together a wonderful book that should be on every Lincoln bookshelf!  I hope that the authors consider producing other fine books about President Lincoln that follow the same format.  This is a great companion book to "Blood on the Moon" by Edward Steers, Jr..
1426523
We really enjoy reading and giving the Images of America books. This one had so much information about this area.
23847
This book includes wonderful shots of the Yukon BEFORE all the tree lines were destroyed, and while there was still a wilderness look to the region. This wild river shed encompassed so many animal habitats, and where are they now?  Destroyed long ago, as the photos reveal.  Great read for the history buff.
493512
I buy many books on Lincoln.  There are great pictures.  I wonder about funerals years ago before planes.  it was touching in the way people showed their sorrow all over the country.  it made me think of when Jfks funeral and how beautiful it was.  I recommend it.
2761316
Having put together Fallingwater, the Guggenheim, and the Brandenburg Gate, I was very excited to put together the Farnsworth House. I have long been a fan of Mies van der Rohe's architecture, reading up on his work, and living by his thoughts that 'less is more'. So when this came out, I was very happen to be given it as a present. All in all, putting it together was more complicated than putting together Fallingwater. But the instructions were clear. And as always, there were nice tidbits of information along the way. I have put this on a windowsill and it looks great there. Seriously, the piece is a beautiful reproduction of the house and is not as small as the Guggenheim or Brandenburg Gate. Pick it up; you won't be disappointed.
761410
Author and photographer Nancy Wood has compiled a fine book on the New Deal photos of New Mexico, taken by such famous photographers as Dorothea Lange, John Collier Jr., Walker Evans, Russell Lee and others. This effort was organized by Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration (and later the Office of War Information), and lasted from 1935 to 1943.

Working long hours for little pay, with hard travel and poor accommodations, this group of talented photographers turned in some truly memorable work. Best of all, since it was done as a US govt. project, all this work is copyright-free. Much of it is online, at the Library of Congress, Wikipedia and elsewhere.

Along with memorable photos is a well-written and consistently-interesting text, with some fabulous anecdotes along the way. This is my second Nancy Wood book this year -- see also&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Taos-Pueblo/dp/0394560329/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Taos Pueblo</a>, an excellent book of her own photographs. I'll have to look for more of her work.

Happy viewing & reading--
Peter D. Tillman
3858101
This is a beautiful book with lots of photos. It is written from a British perspective, but the information is appropriate for America as well. It does not have the depth of another book that I read, but it has all the basic information that a novice might need. It has some tips that are useful as well. I will be keeping it for the photos alone for they are a pleasure to look at.
1708548
I'm moving to Arkansas and I needed help identifying all the wonderful trees.  Tons and Tons of pictures .. love it.
4965470
I recently saw Johnson's work on display at the Henry Art Gallery.  His work describes a heretofore undocumented aspect of American history. Shown alongside historic photos of the Pacific Northwest from early pioneer days, one gets a sense of the place in history that Johnson's work claims.

For hundreds of years people have been hunting, gathering, farming, scavenging, building dams, logging, developing housing and even selling Star Wars memorabilia in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.  Now someone has documented these people and the land they rely on.  A mix between the work of Ansel Adams and Robert Franks, this work is as important as Franks' "The Americans"&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Looking-In-Robert-Frank-s-The-Americans-Expanded-Edition/dp/3865218067/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, Expanded Edition</a>&nbsp;and as beautiful as Adams' "California".&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/California-With-Classic-California-Writings/dp/0821223690/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">California: With Classic California Writings</a>

Fans of Raymond Carver's work would enjoy a rainy day with&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Where-I-m-Calling-From-Selected-Stories/dp/0679722319/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories</a>&nbsp;and Johnson's book as a complement.  As to claims that the artist is trying to cash in on some environmental movement, I don't see it.  This work brings the reader and viewer a real slice of America that many people would otherwise never get to see due to the inaccessible nature of so much of the Northwest.