Haunter of Ruins was chosen as a winner in the General Trade Illustrated Book Category by Bookbuilders of Boston. Lawrence, Andrei Codrescu, Ellen Gilchrist, Shirley Ann Grau, Jonathan Williams, Albert Belisle Davis, and John Wood - Haunter of Ruins is the only book currently available on this incomparable American original. Accompanied by selections from Laughlin's various writings and letters, as well as essays by eight distinguished writersJon Kukla, John H. This stunning volume brings together 65 of Laughlin's characteristic images, both classic and unpublished - an eerie gallery of French quarter facades and ironwork, funerary sculpture, Spanish moss, and other details that summon up Louisiana gothic. Over the course of his lengthy career, Laughlin produced more than 17,000 negatives and a large collection of writings on the art of photography. He continued photographing actively until 1967, and lectured and wrote until his death in 1985. In 1948 his book on Louisiana's plantation architecture, Ghosts Along the Mississippi, vaulted him into the pantheon of great American photographers. Dubbed "Edgar Allan Poe with a camera," Laughlin and his haunting images capture - like nothing before or since - the weathered elegance and dreamy decadence of Louisianas buildings, streets, and cemeteries. After experimenting with photography in the early 1930s, Laughlin devoted himself to the medium in 1935 and had his first showing a year later. Self-taught photographer Clarence John Laughlin (1905-85) spent most of his career in and around New Orleans. VG+/VG (Pages are very crisp and clean.). 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. Contents include: Introduction: The wonder and terror of Clarence John Laughlin / Jon Kukla - Introduction to the photographs: Images and words / John H. 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. 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. Signed on title page by John Lawrence, Patricia Brady, and Jon Kukla. Strange Light also attests to Laughlin’s innovative approach and insight into photography’s development.Black paper boards, yellow cloth spine with black lettering bw illustrated dust jacket with white and yellow lettering, 105 pp, profusely illustrated with 69 duotone photographs. The exhibition explores Laughlin’s literary leanings in great depth by placing his photographs in relationship to Southern Gothic literature and other regional literary genres, which were widely popular in the 1940s. Known primarily for his atmospheric depictions of the decaying antebellum architecture that proliferated in his hometown of New Orleans, Laughlin approached photography with a romantic, experimental eye that diverged strongly from the style of his peers, who championed realism and social documentary. Laughlin considered himself a writer first and a photographer second, and he saw image-making as a form of visual poetry. Strange Light surveys Laughlin’s signature photographs between 19 from more than 80 prints in the Museum’s collection, including many from a landmark 2015 acquisition that will be on view at the High for the first time. The High boasts one of the largest and most important monographic holdings of Laughlin’s work and will celebrate his important legacy with this exhibition, the most comprehensive posthumous presentation of his work to date. Dubbed the “Father of American Surrealism,” Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) was the most important Southern photographer of his time and a singular figure in the development of the American school of photography.
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