
An America's Cup Treasury
The Lost Levick Photographs, 1893-1937
Gary Jobson(Author)
Chatham Publishing
Published on 16. August 2001
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-86176-184-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of photographs, reproduced as duotone images on high-quality art paper, presents a record of the great years of the America's Cup, between 1890 and 1937, when the extraordinarily graceful and powerful cutters of that era fought for yachting's most prestigious trophy. The British-born Edwin Levick became one of America's leading photographers. Only a year before his death he had received the blue ribbon of the Photographers Association of America for a series of marine studies. For years he was considered the official photographer of the New York Yacht Club and his depictions of the America's Cup, acquired by the Mariners' Museum, amount to some 43,000 images. His photographs not only describe the important moments of the racing but also the quieter moments behind the scenes - the white-suited crews loitering on deck, young women cutting enormous sails, poignant scenes of damaged craft, and the great industrial protagonists themselves, Sir Thomas Lipton, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the skipper Charlie Barr and many others.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Greenhill Books
Illustrations
152 duotone photographs
Dimensions
Height: 278 mm
Width: 224 mm
Weight
1073 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86176-184-2 (9781861761842)
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Persons
Gary Jobson, television commentator, internationally known sailing tactician and a one-time member of a winning America's Cup crew, is also an accomplished writer with a knack for tracking down a hidden story. When he came across the Levick photographs in the Mariners' Museum a perfect partnership was born.