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Other Summers The Photographs of Horace Engle

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ISBN-10: 0271002360

ISBN-13: 9780271002361

Edition: 1982

Authors: Edward Leos, Alan Trachtenberg

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This rare cache of early photographs, salvaged and printed by the author, reveals an authentic view of life in the late 19th century America with a photographic vision that was fifty years ahead of its time. An unposed, candid record of people and activities in rural areas and towns of Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1880's, these images have a quality of unstrained honesty and freshness that is in marked contrast to the stilted, formal portraits of the period. Professor Leo's text reveals the unconscious artistry of the photographer Horace Engle (1861-1949), a native of Marietta, PA, who was a chemist, promoter, inventor, and researcher at the Edison labs, as well as a lifelong amateur…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 11/19/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.75" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.066
Language: English

Edward Leos, while professor of Journalism at Penn State, rescued these fragile glass negatives from precarious storage in a corn crib! Several years of persistent and exacting effort have resulted in this splendid collection of images and a biography of the photographer who produced them. Prints of the Engle photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the William Penn Museum of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.