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California Plain : Remembering Barns

Name: California Plain : Remembering Barns
Author: Morley Baer
ISBN: 9780804742702

by Morley Baer

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“ . . . [His] focus, among others, was the extraordinary nature of the most ordinary barns. Plain and simple. . . . Morley’s most luminescent images reveal as much about the man as they do about the subjects, themselves.”—The Monterey County Herald
“California Plain—Remembering Barns, a book of photography by the late Morley Baer of Carmel and edited by his widow, Frances Baer, is proof of why Morley Baer was known as his generation’s premier architectural photographer of Northern California.”—The Carmel Pine Cone

About the Author, Morley Baer

Morley Baer's photographic books include Stones of the Sur: Poetry by Robinson Jeffers, Photographs by Morley Baer (Stanford, 2001); Light Years: The Photographs of Morley Baer; The Wilder Shore; Room and Time Enough: The Land of Mary Austin; Painted Ladies: San Francisco's Resplendent Victorians; and Adobes in the Sun.

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Library Journal

In his lifetime, Baer (1916-95) was considered the leading architectural photographer in Northern California. These 65 fine-quality black-and-white photographs, dating from 1951 to 1994, reveal a true reverence for and love of rural architecture. With well-balanced variety, the photographs depict cow barns of all types, as well as apple barns, seed barns, hay barns, feed barns, fine stone stables, water towers, an octagonal barn, skyscraper barns, windmills, and a hophouse, all shown against a backdrop of the rolling hills and mountains of Northern California. The book also includes an essay called "Remembering Barns" by scholar Bright Eastman, a remembrance by friend Patrick Jablonski, and "Rules of the Road" by Frances M. Baer, who recalls what it was like being a student and then the wife of this marvelously talented photographer. This is not just a regional book; it should be purchased for photography collections and wherever there are still farms and agrarian living or for readers who can appreciate simpler, less complicated lives. Highly recommended.-Joseph Hewgley, Nashville P.L. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

These 68 b&w fine arts-quality prints of photographs of barns, taken from 1951-94, represent the late photographer's infatuation with this symbol of a vanishing way of life in the US West. Baer's widow introduces his career (1916-96) and the two essays accompanying this pictorial record. Scholar Bright Eastman's contribution provides historical and architectural context on the focus of Baer's photography. Patrick Jablonski, Baer's last assistant, offers a personal recollection of him. Includes a list of the plates and their negative numbers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)