An Image of Monhegan - Softcover

Kleinhans, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096600910X ISBN 13: 9780966009101

Publisher: Precipice Publications, 1997

Synopsis

Monhegan Island, Maine, is one of the treasures of America's seacoast. A scant square mile in area and lying ten miles off the mainland, Monhegan, visited by John Cabot in 1497, has been home to a fishing and lobstering community since the 1700's. For a hundred years, the beauty and isolation of the island has attracted artists in large numbers. Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper and three generations of Wyeths are among the painters who have worked there. Photographer John Kleinhans has explored this island since 1984. Working with large format cameras, he creates quiet, contemplative platinum prints. An Image of Monhegan presents a unique interpretation of defining motifs of this magical place. A description of platinum printing is included.

About this title

About the Author

A music student as an undergraduate, John Kleinhans received a doctorate from the Institute for Cognitive Studies at Rutgers for research in visual perception, and taught experimental psychology for twelve years. He set up his first darkroom in 1965. His collection of color photographs from France were the subject of a traveling exhibition sponsored by Alliance Francaise of New York City. He has also had exhibitions of color photography from Monhegan, the Hudson Valley, and the British Isles. He is a designer at Woodstock Percussion, Inc, a Vice-President of the Woodstock School of Art and former chairman of the Woodstock Artists Association. His Monhegan photographs are shown at the Lupine Gallery in Monhegan.

Review

The island, which has no automobiles or even paved roads, has an unsullied quality that quite naturally evokes another time; in these platinum prints, with their plush shadows and phosphorescent highlights, this pristine quality becomes almost preternatural....And the things of Monhegan---the scored rocks, and swept grasses in harsh noon light; the prim white houses wraithlike in the fog-speak for themselves with grave eloquence in Kleinhans' photographs. Having An Image of Monhegan is the next best thing to being there. -- Ulster Publishing Company's alm@nac, Dec. 11, 1997

Edition details

• Publisher: Precipice Publications
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 096600910X
• ISBN 13: 9780966009101
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60