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Haunter of ruins : the photography of Clarence John Laughlin / edited by John H. Lawrence and Patricia Brady ; with essays by Jon Kukla ... [et al.].

Title
Haunter of ruins : the photography of Clarence John Laughlin / edited by John H. Lawrence and Patricia Brady ; with essays by Jon Kukla ... [et al.].
Author
Laughlin, Clarence John
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, c1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Lawrence, John H.
  • Schmit, Patricia Brady.
Description
105 p. : ill., ports.; 31 cm.
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John Laughlin (1905-1984) reveals New Orleans at its most brooding and mysterious in 65 images, both classic and unpublished.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.
Subject
  • Laughlin, Clarence John
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Cemeteries > New Orleans > Pictorial works
  • Architectural photography > New Orleans
Genre/Form
  • k – Exhibition – v – publications.
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • Pictorial works
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Note
  • "A Bulfinch Press book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
0821223615
LCCN
^^^97004077^
OCLC
  • 36241765
  • SCSB-10613954
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library