Local Color: Long Beach Island's Photographic History Reimagined - Hardcover

Leslee Ganss; Ray Fisk

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159322124X ISBN 13: 9781593221249

Publisher: Down The Shore Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

In this uniquely different look at Long Beach Island’s past, historic black and white photographs, meticulously hand-colored,are paired with fascinating historical descriptions, quotes, and short passages. We see anew the colorful characters, history, rich stories, and lost landmarks of a vibrant New Jersey Shore community. Blurring the lines between a fine art coffee-table book and a history, Local Color is like visiting a gallery exhibition. The images, combined with the text vignettes, carry the moods and feelings of a vanished world. New life is breathed into the moments and lives of the Island’s past and we enter a colorful world long gone.

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About the Author

LESLEE GANSS, an artist and graphic designer, spent her youthful summers in Harvey Cedars on LBI until moving to the Island year-round. After graduating from the University of the Arts (then the Philadelphia College of Art), she was hired for a summer job at LBI's young weekly, The SandPaper, and stayed on for 18 years as Art Director. She designs books and publications, and continues to create a weekly editorial cartoon -- The SandPaper's ''Artoon,'' now in its third decade. As an artist and craftsperson she paints, repurposes and up-cycles found objects, helps diamondback terrapins cross roads during nesting season, and has held a baby osprey. She has published two collections of her Artoons. Her family's home is in Harvey Cedars and she lives across the bay surrounded by tidal creeks and salt marsh in the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

RAY FISK was one of the first editors and photographers on Long Beach Island's alternative weekly, The SandPaper, joining college friends on the small staff for its seventh issue, before the paper even had an office. He planned to stay on the Island only through that summer but never left. (LBI does that to people.) He worked in the New Jersey and Shore region for over decade and a half as a full-time photojournalist for The New York Times and United Press International as well as other major publications while based on the Island. He founded Down The Shore Publishing from his home in a land-locked houseboat in Harvey Cedars, and has published over 100 titles with nearly three-dozen authors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Down The Shore Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159322124X
• ISBN 13: 9781593221249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288