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Transcendental Concord / Lisa McCarty.
Fine Arts Library TR655 .M39325 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCarty, Lisa, 1982- photographer.
- Standardized Title:
- Photographs. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McCarty, Lisa, 1982-.
- McCarty, Lisa.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Authors, American.
- Concord (Mass.)--Pictorial works.
- Concord (Mass.).
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Concord--Pictorial works.
- Walden Woods (Mass.)--Pictorial works.
- Walden Woods (Mass.).
- Transcendentalism (New England).
- Massachusetts--Concord.
- Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 129 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Transcendental Concord documents the spirit of Transcendentalism, the literary, social, and philosophical movement that arose in the mid-19th century. While the circle of Transcendentalists in New England was wide, at its center was a core group that lived in Concord, Massachusetts. Bronson Alcott and daughter Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau lived within a few miles of each other for nearly 20 years, regularly meeting in each other's homes and on the paths of Walden Woods to discuss their writings and beliefs. In the course of a year and in every season North-Carolina based photographer Lisa McCarty photographed the sites where these Transcendentalists lived and wrote in Concord. McCarty's parallel reverence for the natural world is evident in her photographs which point to large and small variations in environment, season and light. McCarty uses long exposures and camera movement in order to capture these variations. Transcendental Concord pays homage to Transcendentalism not only in capturing a shared landscape, but in McCarty's technique: her keen observation of natural phenomena and openness to experimentation and chance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115).
- ISBN:
- 9781942185369
- 1942185367
- OCLC:
- 1033564558
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