Mary RandlettBesprekingen
Auteur van Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art
Besprekingen
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Perhaps I was hoping for too much. Not every photographer can produce images like Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother or Yousef Karsh's Winston Churchill. Yet all too often the photos failed to capture my interest and I found myself doing little more than glance at them before turning to the text. Even when I went back through the book and carefully studied the photos in preparing this review my primary reaction was that the image showed a "nice-looking" person; many appeared to be friendly.
The photograph of Betty Bowen that appears on the cover is one of the more compelling images in the book; kudos to the judgment of the editor. Other photographs that captured my attention are those of young Mary Randlett (p. viii), Kenneth Callahan (p. 12), Morris Graves (p. 24), Galen Garwood (p. 82), Theodore Roethke (p. 125), and Judith Roche (p. 152). The two photographs of Virginia Bloedel Wright (pp. 94 & 111) also seem to have captured an appealing je ne sais quoi quality.
The book uses a somewhat common format with a photograph on the left and a page of text describing the subject's accomplishments and connection to the Pacific Northwest on the facing page. Some subjects receive a four page or even longer treatment. The text provides a lively read and the author (Frances McCue) does a nice job of pulling together information about the subject's accomplishments, personal life, and connection to the Pacific Northwest. However, I was left wanting some visual evidence to accompany the text. The book would have been enhanced by adding photos of the artistic works of each artist, especially those works mentioned in the text.½