California Plain: Remembering Barns by Morley Baer (English) Hardcover Book

Description: California Plain by Morley Baer Widely acknowledged as the leading architectural photographer of Northern California, the late Morley Baer had an enduring passion for photographing barns. This book makes available fine-arts quality prints of 68 extraordinary black-and-white photographs of California barns. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Widely acknowledged as the leading architectural photographer of Northern California, the late Morley Baer had an enduring passion for photographing barns, which he began doing in the 1950s. This book makes available fine-arts quality prints of sixty-eight extraordinary black-and-white photographs of California barns, those often ghostly but comforting shapes in a grassy pasture we glimpse as we fly down the freeway at seventy miles an hour.The photographs also serve as a documentary record of a once common and now vanishing element of the landscape of California and the West. What is it about an old barn that wrenches a heartfelt pang from us today? Why do we photograph them, visualize them in their prime, and voice strenuous objections when new developments threaten to wipe them away? For many of us, abandoned farm structures are the focus of romantic reverie, an evocation of our agrarian roots, inviting us back to what we imagine must have been simpler, less complicated lives. A vision of life on the farm conjures a sense of wholesomeness and hard work, tillers of the soil taming the wild land as the American way of life moved West.Enjoyment of the superb photographs will be deepened by Bright Eastmans colorful discussion of the history and various roles and styles of barns, as well as by the description by Patrick Jablonski—Morley Baers last assistant—of how Baer took pictures, developed his negatives, and printed them. Back Cover " . . . [His] focus, among others, was the extraordinary nature of the most ordinary barns. Plain and simple. . . . Morleys most luminescent images reveal as much about the man as they do about the subjects, themselves."-The Monterey County Herald "California Plain-Remembering Barns, a book of photography by the late Morley Baer of Carmel and edited by his widow, Frances Baer, is proof of why Morley Baer was known as his generations premier architectural photographer of Northern California."-The Carmel Pine Cone Flap Widely acknowledged as the leading architectural photographer of Northern California, the late Morley Baer had an enduring passion for photographing barns, which he began doing in the 1950s. This book makes available fine-arts quality prints of sixty-eight extraordinary black-and-white photographs of California barns, those often ghostly but comforting shapes in a grassy pasture we glimpse as we fly down the freeway at seventy miles an hour. The photographs also serve as a documentary record of a once common and now vanishing element of the landscape of California and the West. What is it about an old barn that wrenches a heartfelt pang from us today? Why do we photograph them, visualize them in their prime, and voice strenuous objections when new developments threaten to wipe them away? For many of us, abandoned farm structures are the focus of romantic reverie, an evocation of our agrarian roots, inviting us back to what we imagine must have been simpler, less complicated lives. A vision of life on the farm conjures a sense of wholesomeness and hard work, tillers of the soil taming the wild land as the American way of life moved West. Enjoyment of the superb photographs will be deepened by Bright Eastmans colorful discussion of the history and various roles and styles of barns, as well as by the description by Patrick Jablonski-Morley Baers last assistant-of how Baer took pictures, developed his negatives, and printed them. Author Biography Morley Baers photographic books include Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer (Stanford, 2001); Light Years: The Photographs of Morley Baer; The Wilder Shore; Room and Time Enough: The Land of Mary Austin; Painted Ladies: San Franciscos Resplendent Victorians; and Adobes in the Sun. Review " ... [His] focus, among others, was the extraordinary nature of the most ordinary barns. Plain and simple... Morleys most luminescent images reveal as much about the man as they do about the subjects, themselves." - The Monterey County Herald "California Plain - Remembering Barns, a book of photography by the late Morley Baer of Carmel and edited by his widow, Frances Baer, is proof of why Morley Baer was known as his generations premier architectural photographer of Northern California." - The Carmel Pine Cone "Baers lofty reputation as a photographer is amply justified by the images that are so handsomely displayed in California Plain." - L.A.Times.com "[Baer] displays a command of both camera and subject that elevates his work from photo documentation to hight art." - L.A.Times.com "These 65 fine-quality black-and-white photographs, dating from 1951 to 1994, reveal a true reverence for and love of rural architecture... This is not just a regional book; it should be purchased for photography collections and wherever there are still farms and agrarian living or for readers who can appreciate simpler, less complicated lives. Highly recommended." - Library Journal Long Description Widely acknowledged as the leading architectural photographer of Northern California, the late Morley Baer had an enduring passion for photographing barns, which he began doing in the 1950s. This book makes available fine-arts quality prints of sixty-eight extraordinary black-and-white photographs of California barns, those often ghostly but comforting shapes in a grassy pasture we glimpse as we fly down the freeway at seventy miles an hour. The photographs also serve as a documentary record of a once common and now vanishing element of the landscape of California and the West. What is it about an old barn that wrenches a heartfelt pang from us today? Why do we photograph them, visualize them in their prime, and voice strenuous objections when new developments threaten to wipe them away? For many of us, abandoned farm structures are the focus of romantic reverie, an evocation of our agrarian roots, inviting us back to what we imagine must have been simpler, less complicated lives. A vision of life on the farm conjures a sense of wholesomeness and hard work, tillers of the soil taming the wild land as the American way of life moved West. Enjoyment of the superb photographs will be deepened by Bright Eastmans colorful discussion of the history and various roles and styles of barns, as well as by the description by Patrick Jablonski--Morley Baers last assistant--of how Baer took pictures, developed his negatives, and printed them. Review Quote "These 65 fine-quality black-and-white photographs, dating from 1951 to 1994, reveal a true reverence for and love of rural architecture. . . . This is not just a regional book; it should be purchased for photography collections and wherever there are still farms and agrarian living or for readers who can appreciate simpler, less complicated lives. Highly recommended."-- Library Journal "Something impelled Morley Baer to capture these soulful images from 1951 to 1994, riding the backwoods, with his equipment, coming over the hill, seeing the structure, driving about it, waiting (sometimes waiting hours) for a single exposure, to capture it at its most lonely and lovely best . . . .He was a professional, and he carefully shot, carefully developed, carefully marked these treasures, driven to record the history of our land, these glorious edifices out of the sould of America."-- RALPH Details ISBN0804742707 Author Morley Baer Publisher Stanford University Press Language English ISBN-10 0804742707 ISBN-13 9780804742702 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2002 Imprint Stanford University Press Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States Edited by Bright Eastland Photographer Morley Baer Subtitle Remembering Barns Short Title CALIFORNIA PLAIN Pages 120 DOI 10.1604/9780804742702 UK Release Date 2002-06-12 AU Release Date 2002-06-12 NZ Release Date 2002-06-12 US Release Date 2002-06-12 Publication Date 2002-06-12 DEWEY 779.99794 Audience General Illustrations 72 illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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