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A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories

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Photographs from the archives of the Mariners’ Museum depict shipbuilding, pleasure craft, naval confrontations, shipwrecks, and icebreakers
Though the title is A Maritime Album, this book is less about the sea than about man’s perceptions of it, as expressed through photographs. Authors John Szarkowski and Richard Benson have collected 100 photos taken between the years 1859 and 1956, all concerning some aspect of boats, boat building, and maritime life: the exuberance of a boat christening in 1900 and the eerie foreignness of arctic whalers in 1882, as an example; shipwrecks and shipbuilders abound, and a few of the photographs–those from the 19th century, especially–focal point on the skin and bones of the trade, from the rotting shells of abandoned boats to the boilers and propellers of ships in the making.

The camera’s subject might have been the sea, but the book is about so a lot more. Szarkowski, the former director of the photography department on the Museum of Brand new Art, has selected each and every of these photos as much for what they say about humanity’s relationship to the sea as for the artistry of the pictures themselves. Richard Benson’s statement, meanwhile, speaks of technology, the futility of war, and the effects of mass production, in addition to a wealth of information about maritime life. More than just a coffee-table book, A Maritime Album offers a number of food for thought about the sea and the place it occupies in our lives and dreams.

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