Scenic Georgia Sketchbook, A: Landmarks and Wonders from the Back Roads

Scenic Georgia Sketchbook, A: Landmarks and Wonders from the Back Roads

Author: Ronald R. Huffman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467149403

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More than eighty historic buildings and roadside landmarks across Georgia have found sanctuary in this stark but powerful collection of sketch work. From obscure treasures like a Cobb County covered bridge to the instantly recognizable Forsyth Park in Savannah, landscape architect Ronald Huffman puts pencil to pad to safeguard moments of state history. Each piece is accompanied by anecdotes and related backstories that preserve the context of these icons before progress irrevocably alters the landscape. Explore the back roads of Georgia with a guide attuned to the unexpected splendors that mark the way.


Montgomery & the River Region Sketchbook

Montgomery & the River Region Sketchbook

Author: Mary Ann Neeley

Publisher: Indigo Custom Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 097628751X

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Montgomery and The River Region have been blessed with a rich and vibrant history. These pages are an attempt to tell their story through the magic of words and the wonder of art.


On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

On Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War

Author: Anthony W. Lee

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0520251512

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"Lee and Young have admirably elucidated this foundational volume in the history of American photography by developing references that emerge from prior readings of these images, as well as thoughtfully producing new ways of seeing the landscapes Gardner presents. The book makes available to a wide audience one of the most important photographic records of any war and certainly the most interesting visual record of the American Civil War. This is superior scholarship."—Shirley Samuels, author of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War "Anthony Lee and Elizabeth Young's deceptively slim volume is a complex, enlightening, and elegant study of a significant Civil War-era document that also greatly enhances our understanding of nineteenth-century visual culture. The analysis and format of this collaborative effort will serve as a model for cultural scholarship for years to come."—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America "In this beautifully written analysis of one of the most important works of nineteenth-century American photography, Lee and Young restore Gardner's Sketch Book to its rightful place as a key document of American history. At once a report of a newsworthy event and a meditation on its historical meaning, Gardner's album is less unmediated reportage than a carefully constructed argument. In clear, lucid prose, Lee and Young help us understand just how Gardner made this work that helped fix the Civil War in American memory."—Martha A. Sandweiss, author of Print the Legend: Photography and the American West