To the manor born
Inbunden bok. Boston : New York Graphic Society. New Uork Graphic Society uppl. 1979.
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I wanted to capture something of the elegance and the extravagance, the tradition and the seclusion even the eccentricities, of this society, expecially as I became aware of the forces that are changing it. I felt a sense of loss at some, though not all, of these changes. The grand manors are impractical, and so they are disappearing, so perhaps, too, are many of the grandes dames, the grand eccentrics, and even the grand illusions
-Mary Lloyd Estrin
[These] realities, yesterday's and today's and even tomorrow's, are glimpsed in these striking photographs of a particular segment of America's wealthy people. These are one knowing sharply per- ceiving photographer's response to moments in a specially endowed duration of time, these are, too, bits of territory in a stretch of domam that twentieth-century social cartographers have not worked at as zealously or circumspectly as has been the case with some other parts of our habitated land
-Robert Coles
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780821207468
- Titel
- To the manor born
- Författare
- Estrin, Mary Lloyd
- Förlag
- Boston : New York Graphic Society
- Språk
- English
