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Book Title
Last of the Hill Farms : Echoes of Vermont's Past
Publication Name
The Last of the Hill Farms
Title
The Last of the Hill Farms
Subtitle
Echoes of Vermont's Past
Author
Richard w. Brown
Contributor
Richard W Brown (By (photographer))
Format
Hardcover
EAN
9781567926057
ISBN
9781567926057
Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
Genre
Photography, Social Science
Topic
Sociology / General, Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
Release Date
15/02/2018
Release Year
2018
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
11.1in
Publication Year
2018
Item Width
9.3in
Number of Pages
136 Pages

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In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, "for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past--granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man--was made palpable." He saw the land and also a people whose "endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity" and who believed their "age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself - labors that might just hold modernity at bay." And Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10" large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and "did so with great but fierce attachment." This is a great ode to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life.

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Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
1567926053
ISBN-13
9781567926057
eBay Product ID (ePID)
241068268

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last of the Hill Farms : Echoes of Vermont's Past
Author
Richard w. Brown
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Photography, Social Science
Number of Pages
136 Pages

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Item Length
11.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
9.3in

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Lc Classification Number
F50.B749 2018
Reviews
Praise for Last of the Hill Farms "A striking book....an arresting, wistful portrait of an all-but-gone way of life." -- Boston Globe "His is an important vision: much of Vermont is still beautiful, but we need to see and appreciate the ideal if we are to preserve it. [His] photography expresses that ideal superlatively well." -- Vermont Life "In The Last of The Hill Farms , first impressions from these remarkable images give way to second, third and fourth appreciations, as all of the elements of Richard Brown's rich compositions are caringly revealed. Vermont's quilted patchwork of hard-scrabble Hill Farms, and the flinty Vermonters who scraped livings from them, are defining elements of Vermont's heritage, deserving of this superb documentation. Carefully and skillfully setting fence stones and roof shingles one at a time, with weather-worn hands, these Vermonters helped forge our working economy and the fabric of our society, infused with the ethic and character of their New England persistence. They took pride in their land and what they achieved with it, and Richard Brown's unforgettable images help us to take pride in them. All Vermonters can know their history is here. I value Richard Brown's gift to us all." -- U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy "Mr. Brown is my favorite upcountry artist with a camera. His photographs have such a crisp luminosity I think I would recognize them anywhere. Uniquely, he captures the quality of northern light, whether it's the beatification of a curly Dorset sheep or the stunning blow of sunlight hammering the east face of a snowed-in farmhouse." -- Maxine Kumin, The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-020190
Dewey Decimal
974.3/043
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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