Haunter of ruins : the photography of Clarence John Laughlin / edited by John H. Lawrence and Patricia Brady ; with essays by Jon Kukla John H. Lawrence, Andrei Codrescu, Ellen Gilchrist, Shirley Ann Grau, Jonathan Williams, Albert Belisle Davis, and John Wood.

Main entry:

Laughlin, Clarence John.

Title & Author:

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, [1997]
©1997

Description:

105 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The wonder and terror of Clarence John Laughlin / Jon Kukla -- Introduction to the photographs: Images and words / John H. Lawrence -- Poems of the interior world: Clarence Laughlin : the fullness of absence / Andrei Codrescu -- Visual poems: Clarence, a celebration / Ellen Gilchrist -- Plantation ghosts: Memory, mint juleps, and my grandfather / Shirley Ann Grau -- The magic of the object: An astonished eye looks out of the air / Jonathan Williams -- Fantasy in old New Orleans: Laughlin, Freud, cholesterol, and Kilz : a Cajun tour guide speaks of peace / Albert Belisle Davis -- Lost New Orleans: Terrible beauty : Clarence John Laughlin's mythologies of misery / John Wood -- Appendix: Clarence John Laughlin's descriptions of his photographic groups.

Summary:

Called "Edgar Allan Poe with a camera", Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1984) reveals New Orleans at its most brooding and mysterious in 65 images, both classic and unpublished. Compiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers.--From book jacket.

ISBN:

0821223615
9780821223611

Subject:

Laughlin, Clarence John.
Laughlin, Clarence John 1905-1985
Photography, Artistic.
Cemeteries Louisiana New Orleans Pictorial works.
Architectural photography Louisiana New Orleans.
Photographie artistique.
Cimetières Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie d'architecture Louisiane La Nouvelle-Orléans.
art photography.
Architectural photography
Cemeteries
Fotografie
Bildband
Vergänglichkeit
Louisiana New Orleans

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Exhibition publications.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Lawrence, John H.
Brady, Patricia, 1943-
Kukla, Jon.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179723
Call No.: TR140.L374 (ID:98-B274)
Status: Available

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