From sea to shining sea

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FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA A Portrait of A merica by Hiroji Kubota Introduction by Charles Kuralt In his introduction to this stunning book, Charles Kuralt writes, "How do you describe a land so rich and varied that it can contain, at once, revelers on Coney Island, Storyville Stompers on Bourbon Street, balloonists on the Rio Grandé, marathoners on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and two fly fishermen alone with their thoughts many miles from any populated place? "It isn't easy, and if Kubota were not awed by the magnificent sum totál of America, he wouldn't even have tried. His is the impulse of humán beings from the first primitive cave painter-to make a record of the things by which we are awed, so that others passing this way will know what we have seen and felt. This brilliant cave painting of his, this murai of America, will endure to notify and instruct the generations to come: however we may look to you, in America in the late twentieth century, this is how we were.1' There have... Tovább

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FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA A Portrait of A merica by Hiroji Kubota Introduction by Charles Kuralt In his introduction to this stunning book, Charles Kuralt writes, "How do you describe a land so rich and varied that it can contain, at once, revelers on Coney Island, Storyville Stompers on Bourbon Street, balloonists on the Rio Grandé, marathoners on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and two fly fishermen alone with their thoughts many miles from any populated place? "It isn't easy, and if Kubota were not awed by the magnificent sum totál of America, he wouldn't even have tried. His is the impulse of humán beings from the first primitive cave painter-to make a record of the things by which we are awed, so that others passing this way will know what we have seen and felt. This brilliant cave painting of his, this murai of America, will endure to notify and instruct the generations to come: however we may look to you, in America in the late twentieth century, this is how we were.1' There have been other photographic boőks about America, mostly compilations of images from many different photographers, or books on very narrow themes. Hiroji Kubota's From Sea To ShiningSea is spectacularly different. Never before has one man traveled so many miles and taken so many glorious and revealing photographs as this noted Magnum photographer. Kubota's images show a vast land of extraordinary diversity-its beautiful landscape, its people, and their work. Kubota's portrait reflects a continuity of vision that enhances our understanding of the many facets of America-from the majestic bison of the Western plains to a town meeting in New England; from the towering offices of New York's financial center to the Pueblo dwellings in New Mexico; and from factory workers in Detroit to dirt farmers in the Southeast. The result of Kubota's efforts is indeed, as Kuralt says, "a murai of America." Vissza