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Indiana
Oversized Hardback (13 1/2" x 10") - "This book give a clear picture of the Hoosier State today - the people who live here, the farmsteads and courthouse squares, the landscape ranging from sand dunes along Lake Michigan to old steamboat towns along the Ohio River." Color Photos throughout book
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Published January 1, 1984
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April 26, 2020
Gorgeous photos!
July 28, 2022
Published in 1984 by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company.
This coffee table book is primarily a showcase of pictures highlighting beauty from all over the state of Indiana. The photographer is Darryl Jones and he has a good eye. Some of his pictures are truly great, most are solid and none are bad. There is not a single picture that could be construed as a negative one.
The book is introduced by a rather lengthy essay by Jared Carter. The best part of the essay is his recollections of the days when he sat in the infield to watch the Indy 500. I am interested because I have gone to the Indy 500 for 35+ years.
Carter discusses how people would bring trucks to sit on in the infield so they could see the race better. Soon enough, people started sitting on the roofs of box trucks to get a better view. Not long after that, people would bring scaffolding and attach it to the truck and build a platform above the box truck. One level became two and that became three and so on. Eventually, one of the platforms collapsed and killed two people and the platforms were banned.
Usually, I am a sucker for books like these, but this one just didn't do much for me. I rate it 3 stars out of 5.
This coffee table book is primarily a showcase of pictures highlighting beauty from all over the state of Indiana. The photographer is Darryl Jones and he has a good eye. Some of his pictures are truly great, most are solid and none are bad. There is not a single picture that could be construed as a negative one.
The book is introduced by a rather lengthy essay by Jared Carter. The best part of the essay is his recollections of the days when he sat in the infield to watch the Indy 500. I am interested because I have gone to the Indy 500 for 35+ years.
Carter discusses how people would bring trucks to sit on in the infield so they could see the race better. Soon enough, people started sitting on the roofs of box trucks to get a better view. Not long after that, people would bring scaffolding and attach it to the truck and build a platform above the box truck. One level became two and that became three and so on. Eventually, one of the platforms collapsed and killed two people and the platforms were banned.
Usually, I am a sucker for books like these, but this one just didn't do much for me. I rate it 3 stars out of 5.
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