Mantelpieces of the Old South: Lost Architecture in Southern Culture
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Book Description
A gorgeous collection of photographs featuring architectural details of Southern homes from the simplest shacks to classic Antebellum mansions. When intertwined with the poetic, often quirky writing of singular Southern writer William Baldwin, these images artfully convey the culture of the South as well as its extraordinary homes.
About the Author
William P. Baldwin is an award-winning novelist, biographer and historian. His novel The Hard to Catch Mercy is a past winner of the Lillian Smith Award for Fiction and he is the author of numerous books and articles about the South, among them Inland Passages: Making a Lowcountry Life, Lowcountry Plantations Today and Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden. He is a longtime resident of McClellanville, South Carolina. His most recent novel is A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of his Death.
V. Elizabeth Turk is a professor of photography at the Atlanta College of Art. She has exhibited photographs both nationally and internationally, and her work can be seen in the collections of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, The Polaroid Collection in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.
Mantelpieces of the Old South: Lost Architecture in Southern Culture,William P. Baldwin,V. Elizabeth Turk,Historic American Building Survey,History Press,1596290587,Architecture,Domestic
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