Picturing Utopia
Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-0-87745-958-3 (ISBN)
Description
Foerstner's collection offers a rare glimpse into the Amana Colonies, a utopian religious community of the 1890s. "Like a time machine, the photographs in "Picturing Utopia" carry us back to a wondrous Iowa experiment in creating a kinder, more spiritual way of life."--Jon Anderson, "Chicago Tribune." 81 photos.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
81 duotones
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87745-958-3 (9780877459583)
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Person
Abigail Foerstner has written hundreds of articles on art and photography for the Chicago Tribune, North Shore magazine, and other publications. Currently teaching in the Graduate Program at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, she is also writing a biography of space pioneer James Van Allen. While researching Picturing Utopia, she helped recover more than a thousand glass plates and other photographic negatives now preserved at the Amana Heritage Museum.