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Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
8/3/25
2/3/25
Book of the Week (2/3/2025)
“Cultivation is just another word for commitment. You think you are just pulling weeds, but what you are really doing is writing a love letter to your patch of earth.” – Thomas Rainer
This quote opens Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden, a book that is a love letter from a woman to the garden she spent 40 years creating. Jill Nooney, a psychotherapist and graduate of the Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design, and her husband Bob Munger, a physician, developed their 30 acres in Lee, New Hampshire into an unforgettable garden.
Featuring more than 300 photographs of the garden and Jill’s artful sculptures, water features, and built structures that provide places throughout Bedrock Garden from which to contemplate the complete landscape, the book takes us from the garden’s origins as a private space to its present life as a public garden. The garden has slowly evolved through its creators’ deep love for the land -- and an indominable urge to experiment.
Rich with entertaining anecdotes of realizing improbable, visionary concepts that involved moving boulders, carrying trees and rocks on planes, ferreting out rare plant material, operating all manner of equipment, and managing thousands of visitors, this is a story of love, loss and generosity. The book takes the reader into a landscape that is green and wild, but also filled with a deep sense of peace. Just like visitors to the garden, readers will fall in love with Bedrock. --Publisher's blurb
About the author:
Jill Nooney grew up in rural New Jersey. She attended Bennington College, Smith College School of Social Work, and the Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design. She has had a lifelong interest in plants, art, and healing the human spirit. She lives with her husband, Bob Munger, in an old farmhouse in New Hampshire. Together, over the span of forty years, they created Bedrock Gardens and in 2023, they gifted the garden to the Friends of Bedrock Gardens to be enjoyed by all.
4/3/24
3 on a Theme: Nature
Nature, Light and Peace - in Poems and Photos by Beverly West Schmidt
New England Nature: Centuries of Writing on the Wonder and Beauty of the Land by David K. Leff and Eric D. Lehman
New England's Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region's Unique Natural Areas by Thomas Wessels
1/8/24
Book of the Week (1/8/2024)
Above the Notch photographs by Fletcher Manley (Bondcliff Books, 2023)
(This book's) purpose is to arouse awareness of the importance that wildlands play in the economic and spiritual value of northern New Hampshire.
It is this hardscrabble region above the “notches” where people live and work close to their environment that I have come to appreciate as a land apart. This little book is a visual commentary on life above the notches as I see it. More importantly, it is offered as a reminder of the importance of the wildlands inherent in the North Country.
The same impulse that inspired early artists to romanticize the region, and settlers to create trails into the wilderness, drives adventure tourism today. Wild nature, and a yearning for it, infuses life in this land above the notches. Great landscape artists have immortalized it, mountaineers explored it, loggers harvested it, and conservationists worked to preserve it. That work continues. The future of New Hampshire’s North Country lies in the preservation of its wildlands.
This is a 6 x 9 inch landscape formatted book of 60 pages. It is a collection of ninety photographs that includes interspersed short text captions. -- Photographer's blurb
About the author:
Fletcher Manley is a professional photographer living in Lancaster, NH. The focus of his work over the course of the last 60+ years has been primarily in the area of outdoor recreation. His work has been featured in such publications as McLean’s Magazine, Today’s Health, True, Venture, Seventeen, Playboy, Ski and Skiing magazines.
4/3/22
3 on a Theme: Photography
New Hampshire Now: A Photographic Diary of Life in the Granite State presented by New Hampshire Historical Society & New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists
Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants by Becky Field
The Webster Lake Picture Book by Bill Cai
2/28/22
Book of the Week (2/28/2022)
Seacoast: The Seasons of New Hampshire by Bob McGrath (Bob McGrath Photographer L.L.C., 2015).
From sweeping meadows to the roaring ocean, farmers to lobstermen, the New Hampshire Seacoast offers a wonderfully eclectic mix of terrain, culture and people. Bob McGrath takes us on a photographic journey exposing the many rich nuances of this region. His ability to draw out beauty in the ordinary, and quietude in the grand, is heartwarming and unforgettable. With writings from renowned artist Catherine Raynes, a rich layer is added to Bob's powerful imagery. Whether you choose the Seacoast as your home or vacation destination, this photographic collection is a celebration of simplicity and splendor of the people and places that make up these extraordinary communities. -- Publisher's Blurb.
11/22/21
Book of the Week (11/22/2021)
New Hampshire Now: A Photographic Diary of Life in the Granite State (Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2021).
Inspired by the Farm Security Administration photography documenting life in America during the Great Depression, the New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists and the New Hampshire Historical Society joined forces to undertake a three-year project to photographically record daily life in the state. This book is the result of nearly 50 photographers covering the seven regions of the Granite State, making thousands of images that create a 21st-century portrait of the people, places, culture, and events in New Hampshire. The body of work created not only illustrates this book, but also is featured in eight exhibitions around the state (all opening October 1, 2021) and archived at the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord, New Hampshire. Gary Samson, award-winning photographer and seventh New Hampshire Artist Laureate, served as project director for New Hampshire Now.
This publication, featuring more than 250 photographs and an introduction by Howard Mansfield of Hancock, is a truly New Hampshire product: created by New Hampshire artists; designed by Peter E. Randall Publisher of Portsmouth; printed by Puritan of Hollis, one of the nation’s leading fine art and photography printers; and printed on paper produced by Monadnock Paper Mills of Bennington, founded in 1819 and the oldest continuously operating paper mill in the United States. -- Publisher's blurb
8/24/20
Book of the Week (8/24/2020)
Condor Comeback by Sy Montgomery (Boston.: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2020).
Granite State author Sy Montgomery is back with a new children's book focusing on the tireless efforts to save the California condor from extinction.
"Sibert Medalist, National Book Award Honoree, and New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery turns her formidable talents to the story of California condors and the scientists who have fought against their extinction in this installment in the award-winning Scientists in the Field Series.
In April of 1987, the last wild California condor was captured and taken to live in captivity like the other 26 remaining birds of its kind. Many thought that the days were over of this remarkable, distinguished bird that had roamed the skies of North and Central America for thousands of years.
Sy Montgomery employs her skill for on-the-ground reporting, shrewd observation, and stunning narrative prose to detail the efforts of scientists, volunteers and everyday citizens to get California condors back in the wild. Montgomery profiles scientists and volunteers at the Santa Barbara Zoo, universities, and federal agencies who have worked tirelessly to raise chicks, nurse sick birds back to health, and conduct research that can support legislation to ban the greatest threat to the survival of the wild condor: lead bullets.
In turns affectionate, frustrating and hopeful, Montgomery does justice to this magnificent but still critically endangered icon.
Coupled with world-class, full-color photos by Tianne Stromback, and along with helpful sidebars including one on the Chumash Indians’ enduring relationship with the bird, Condor Comeback is an inspiring story of groundbreaking science, preservation and cooperation." --Author's website
8/10/20
Book of the Week (8/10/2020)
Concord, NH photographer Becky Field has published a second book of photography focusing on immigrants and refugees living in the state of New Hampshire and their stories.
"FINDING HOME celebrates people from other countries who have resettled in New Hampshire.
Since 2012, photographer Becky Field has documented the lives of immigrants and refugees. Now, in addition to her portraits, she transcribed their memories of life in the home country and the journey to find a new home. The 40 interviews represent a mix of age, gender, communities, and countries of origin.
The immigrants’ stories document the resilience and determination of
people to find safety, education, work, and freedom, while Becky’s
photographs show the beauty and vitality of cultural diversity that
contributes to all our communities."-- Author's website
3/12/18
Book of the Week (3/12/2018)
When I saw the cover of this book I immediately yearned for Spring. After this long New Hampshire winter, we could use some butterflies and flowers in our lives! Beverly's poems and Richard's photographs capture the beauty of New Hampshire's wildlife and their love of nature.
Join Beverly and Richard as they read and discuss their book Nature, Light and Peace at the Toadstool Bookshop in Keene on Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 11:00 am.
6/19/17
Book of the Week (6/19/2017)
Interested in locally grown food and where to find it in the Granite State? Local photographer Kimberly Peck features beautiful images of New Hampshire farmers, their farms, products, and recipes in her book "Farm, Food, Life".
"Growing up in Vermont, I was surrounded by the amazing farms along the Connecticut River Valley. Now, as I make my home in the beautiful Monadnock Region of southern New Hampshire, I am once again surrounded by fertile hills and valleys that have long sustained family-run farms and local agriculture. Over the past few years, with the increasing interest in homegrown food, the Monadnock Region has attracted a new generation of farmers to work its fertile soil.
In 2011, drawing inspiration from my childhood in Vermont and my home in the Monadnock Region, I began photographing local farms to support the growing local food movement and to feed my passion for documentary photography. The goal of my farm series is to use the visual narrative of photography to connect farmers and their communities. I want people to see who is growing their food and to understand the hard work that goes into farming. The resulting photographs compel us to think about the food on our plates, where it came from and who grew it. Every farm has a unique story to tell, and through the photographs, each farm has the opportunity to share theirs. My farm photography continues to evolve into an inspiring and creative exploration of local agriculture. During the past three years, I have documented over thirty farms, with more visits planned this year.
Farm, Food, Life features photographs, farmer profiles, and recipes showcasing local ingredients produced by the featured farms. Along with professional cook & farmer Sarah Heffron of Mayfair Farm, in Harrisville, NH, we have created approachable recipes geared toward all levels of cooks and bakers...how yummy is that?" --Author's blurb
2/3/12
Book of the Week #5
When it was published in 1979 this book, and the exhibit it was a companion to, was looking at the work of photographers whose place in the history of 20th century American photography was still to be adequately understood. (to paraphrase the introduction). Brief profiles, based on interviews, of ten American photographers provide insights into what brought them to create the work they did and the book includes reproductions of several of each woman's works.
"Aside from gender, their only tie to one another is that of age: all these photographers were born around the turn of the century. Their work reflects a panorama of life experience and more than seventy-five years of photographic history. Their generation lived through drastic social change and observed extremes in social mores, ethical values, and the definition of good taste in art as well as life. The world they knew as children was abruptly upended by World War I and their adult lives were disrupted by World War II. Seen as a group, their photographs form a bridge of perceptions moving through these shifts in style." (p. 8)Among the women profiled here is Lotte Jacobi, a photographer who championed fine art photography and who made her home in New Hampshire in 1955. She was active in local political causes as well as artistic ones. Ms. Jacobi's work, as well as that of her sister, is part of an exhibit, A New Vision: Modernist Photography, opening at the Currier Museum this week and running through mid-May 2012.
1/19/12
Book of the Week #3
Photographer and Lancaster resident Fletcher Manley has gathered an exquisite collection of images for this book. They are black and white photographs he made between 1967 and 2010 and they capture the magical qualities of snow in scenes from around the world. Many of the images include skiers, Powder-8's is a particularly striking skiing image, but city-scapes and country woods are also included.
"Growing up among hills and mountains helped shape my appreciation of the vertical landscape. Winter held a particular fascination with its low, glancing light, long shadows, and crisp accentuated textures, where snow sculpted and redefined familiar forms. So, it was not so much as a mountaineer, but more a rambler among the peaks and valleys, that I came to frame light and shadows, shapes and forms inherent in the mountain landscape." --Fletcher Manley
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