On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier

Calvin Siegal; Llewellyn Howland III; Norman Fortier

ISBN 10: 1567923348 / ISBN 13: 9781567923346

Edité par David R. Godine, Publisher / (Imago Mundi Book), 2007

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First edition stated 2007, first printing. Published by David R. Godine, Publisher / (Imago Mundi Book). Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition new, square tight and crisp book, corners not bumped, no edgewear, no names, no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ fine, bright, no edgewear, one very small tear at lower corner, no chips, price not clipped. Oblong 4to, XXV + 128 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: On the Wind: The Marine Photographs of Norman Fortier
• Éditeur: David R. Godine, Publisher / (Imago Mundi Book)
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1567923348
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781567923346
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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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.