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Bonner-Ganter Deanna |
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Kosti Ruohomaa : the photographer poet / / Deanna Bonner-Ganter |
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Camden, Maine : , : Down East Books, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (396 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Photographers - United States |
Photographers - Maine |
Documentary photography - Maine - History - 20th century |
Photography, Artistic - 20th century |
Finnish Americans |
Maine History 20th century Pictorial works |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface / by John G. Morris -- Foreword: "Kosti was here" / by Craig Stevens -- Beginnings : a Finnish heritage -- Drawing board to lens : the California years (1938-43) -- Tear sheets -- Folkways and folklore -- Freighter to Liverpool : overseas assignments (April-November 1948) -- The photographer poet -- Beloved Maine, my hometown -- Andrew Wyeth of Cushing -- Work : close to the land, close to the sea -- Surrealism into abstraction, black-and-white into color -- "Flower throwers" : the last year -- Appendix I: Letter of introduction to the Finnish people / by Howard Chapnick -- Appendix II: Remembering Kosti : a memoir / by Alfred Gescheidt -- "Maine" / by Kosti Ruohomaa -- Appendix III: Time, Inc. assignments -- Appendix IV: Exhibition history -- Museum holdings and private collections. |
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"Acclaimed photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is widely known for his photographs of hard scrabble Yankees in mid-century Maine. No one was more acutely aware than Ruohomaa that his work was capturing a way of life that was rapidly fading. Before his work in Maine, however, Ruohamaa started out with Disney, then went on to become a freelance photographer for the Black Star Agency, where he was a regular |
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contributor to Life, National Geographic, Look, and Ladies Home Journal. His true passion, however, was documenting the lives of the people of Maine. In this biography by curator Deanna Bonner-Ganter, of the Maine State Museum, Kosti's life and work is made relevant and important to an audience that may be unfamiliar with his work"--Provided by publisher. |
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