Evangeline : a modern tale of Acadia / Mark Marchesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchesi, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photographers.

Acadia--Pictorial works.

Acadia.

Photobooks.

Photography, Artistic.

Photographers--Maine.

Maine.

North America--Acadia.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

106 pages : illustrations (color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : Daylight Community Arts Foundation, 2016.

Summary:

Longfellow could not have anticipated his poem's popularity with modern Acadians, and he would have been surprised by the role it would play in the emergence of Acadian nationalism. That same sense of pain has more recently pervaded the poignant photographs of modern Acadia taken by Mark Marchesi, an unforgettable, brilliant tribute to the persistence of Longfellow's vision even in our century. Loss and loneliness have written themselves into the crumbling paint, shattered windows, and broken roofs of abandoned houses; into the docked fishing boats and empty churches, the mist-shrouded bays and darkening clouds that Marchesi's camera has captured. The sun is setting over these landscapes emptied of human presence, painting them pink with soft despair - a quiet reminder that words alone cannot undo the terrible damage wrought by history. And yet, on another level, Marchesi's work too becomes a part - an important and hopeful one - of a continuing, vibrant tradition of stories woven around and landscape that the poet Longfellow, more than 150 years ago, imagined as forever filled with a dreamy and magical light. -- Christoph Irmscher, Preface.

ISBN:

9781942084211

1942084218

OCLC:

945949107