On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier

SIEGAL, Calvin and HOWLAND III, Llewellyn

ISBN 10: 1567923348 / ISBN 13: 9781567923346

Edité par Imago Mundi, Boston, 2007

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inscribed by LLewellyn Howland, 127pp, small square quarto, hc w/jacket in mylar, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with sharp corners, complete jacket with mild wear to the edges and mild soiling.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier
• Éditeur: Imago Mundi, Boston
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1567923348
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781567923346
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • MARITIME

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Synopsis

A stunning collection of photographs by the marine photographer, Norman Fortier. Sailing and sailors, harbors and fishermen―selected from more than 100,000 negatives. It is also a moving and unforgettable evocation of a time and way of life that has already passed into memory.

Since 1947, the marine photographer Norman Fortier embraced the south coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island as his studio and his inspiration. His cameras have captured images of every conceivable description on the waters from Block Island to outer Cape Cod and the offshore islands: yachts and small craft under sail and at anchor; draggers and trawlers bound to and from Georges Bank; runabouts and sportfishermen dockside and at speed; commercial vessels and tall ships. Always, his images capture the beauty and ever-changing moods of the region’s coastline, harbors, and islands

Over the years his photographs have appeared in America’s best boating magazines. In 1967 he published his first collection of yachting images, The Bay and the Sound, which rapidly went through four printings. More recently, the New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrated Fortier’s six decades as a professional photographer with a major retrospective exhibition of his work displaying his deep roots in New Bedford, his intense love of Buzzards Bay, the Elizabeth Islands, and surrounding waters, and his uncanny ability to depict the complex interrelationship of humans, boats, and the sea.

Beginning with early images of Padanaram Harbor, On the Wind carries the viewer west to Rhode Island Sound and Newport, east to Mattapoisett, Marion, and harbors at the head of Buzzards Bay. Succeeding chapters cover Martha’s Vineyard and the offshore islands, the port of New Bedford and working craft, the grand spectacle that is the New York Yacht Club’s annual summer cruise, and boats designed and built in South Dartmouth by the legendary Concordia Company.

À propos de l?auteur

Norman Fortier became an avid self-taught marine photographer as a young man. He served as a Navy photographer during WWII setting up his own commercial studio on his return. He was a generalist, doing advertising work, portraiture, and aerial assignments, yet the images he produced testify to both his brilliance as a technician and his uncanny sense of composition.