Vineyard Days, Vineyard Nights: The Romance of Martha's Vineyard - Hardcover

Ellison, Nancy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584793783 ISBN 13: 9781584793786

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2004

Synopsis

An album of beautiful full-color photography captures the essence of the famous vacation island with a record of landscapes and villages that can be enjoyed by both visitors to the island and those that have lived there all their lives.

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About the Author

Photojournalist and painter Nancy Ellison is the author of many books, including Starlet, Barbie Live, and The American Ballet Theatre's The Ballet Book. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications, among them Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. Her recent photographic exhibition, Barbie Live, was held at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York. She and her husband, Bill Rollnick, are summer residents of Martha's Vineyard. Paul Theroux is the internationally acclaimed author of such travel books as The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Sunrise with Seamonsters, The Kingdom by the Sea, and Dark Star Safari. His many novels include Hotel Honolulu and The Mosquito Coast.

Reviews

It’s fitting that the photographs in this oversized volume are matte, not glossy, and that they don’t initially overwhelm viewers with exuberant displays of glitz. Rather, like the place they depict, the photos are refined, somewhat muted and generally plain, yet evocative. Ellison, a summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard and author of The Ballet Book, Barbie Live and other books, organizes this collection by time of day. Her "Morning" photos show misty beaches, hazy country roads, boaters setting out for the day, the breakfast rush at the Art Cliff diner and tourists disembarking from the Island Queen ferry. "Afternoon" brings deeper blue skies, bathers taking a mid-day dip, men with cable-knit sweaters draped over their shoulders enjoying a cocktail on board the KelDi and a bright red lighthouse standing high above azure seas. Naturally, sunsets are the most striking of Ellison’s "Evening" shots, and her treatments of these scenes range from typical (orange-streaked skies over calm waters) to more unusual (a skiff speeding home as the sky turns pink). Travel writer Paul Theroux, a resident of nearby Cape Cod, has contributed an essay to this volume, in which he fetes the island’s different moods, a subject Ellison deftly plays with in her lovely, varying photographs. 150 full-color photos.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584793783
• ISBN 13: 9781584793786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176