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Hallmark Cards, Inc., Published 1990. Paperback, 166 pp.; 30 cm; 94 duotone plates and 30 additional figure illustrations; designed by Malcolm Grear Designers.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Black paper covers with white lettering on front and spine show light bumping to edges and corners and mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pale cream dust jacket with pictorial front panel (The Mirror of Long Ago, 1946) shows mild edge and shelf wear and a few tiny spots on rear panel. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Monograph on Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), the New Orleans photographer whose staged, multiple-exposure images of decaying Louisiana plantations, cemeteries, and veiled figures made him the leading American Surrealist in the medium. Published as part of the Hallmark Photographic Collection series (with the Barnard, Callahan, and Webb volumes), drawing on the more than 120 Laughlin prints in that collection and on the master-print archive Laughlin gave to The Historic New Orleans Collection in 1981. Three essays: Keith F. Davis on the early work (A Forest of Symbols), John H. Lawrence on Laughlin's unfinished Poems of the Interior World series, and Nancy C. Barrett on the architectural photographs (Brick and Wood and Spirit). Plates range from 1930s industrial abstractions and New Orleans street scenes to the plantation and cemetery images of the 1940s and the "Ghosts Along the Mississippi" era, each reproduced with Laughlin's own titles. Abbreviated chronology, list of Laughlin's photographic groups, and captions with subject data at end.