The September 2019 meeting looked
at photography as the month's theme.
Many of the books chronicled through photographs the lives of individuals
from well-known writers to American presidents.
Books on photography and collections by specific photographers rounded
out the selection of books shown.
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| Photoviz |
Felton, Nicholas. Photoviz: Visualizing Information through
Photography. Berlin: Gestalten, 2016. First edition. Photographs by sixty-nine photographers from
around the world show the intersection of photography, infographics, and data
visualization. Using both high-tech and
classic photography techniques, these artists visualize information and tell
stories about the subjects they capture. Techniques such as panorama, long exposure,
time lapse, and slit-scan photography allow the artists to show more than a
single, brief moment in time. For
example, a single image can visualize the various planes taking off from the
same runway in a given hour (see book cover above) or the dynamic of an entire
basketball game or the full daily activity of single squirrel in a tree (see
below).
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| Select images from Photoviz |
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| C. S. Lewis: Images of His World |
C. S. Lewis: Images of His World,
as the title indicates, is filled with photos from Lewis's life, from Belfast
to Oxford to Cambridge. It includes an
introductory essay by Douglas Gilbert, a professional photographer, and Clyde
S. Kilby, the founder of the Marion E. Wade Collection at Wheaton College, one
of the preeminent Inklings collections in the world. Two editions of the book in slightly
different formats.
Gilbert, Douglas and Clyde
Kilby. C. S. Lewis: Images of His
World. Grand Rapids, MI: William B.
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973.
Gilbert, Douglas and Clyde
Kilby. C. S. Lewis: Images of His
World. Grand Rapids, MI: William B.
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005.
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| A Positive Life |
Huston, River and Mary
Berridge. A Positive Life: Portraits
of Women Living with HIV.
Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, 1997. Interviews by River Huston and photography by
Mary Berridge. In candid interviews and
original photographs, Huston and Berridge detail the lives of thirty women
living with HIV to chronicle the emotional and physical struggles of living
with the disease.
A Positive Life
seeks to portray the strength, survival, and resolve of these women and to
convey a message of hope and power to others.
Signed by River Huston on the title page.
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| Select images from A Positive Life |
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| American Hollow |
Kennedy, Rory. American Hollow. New York: Bulfinch Press, 1999. Photography by Steve Lehman. Kennedy, the daughter of Ethel and Robert
Kennedy, examines issues of rural life in Appalachia by following Iree, the
seventy-year-old matriarch of the Bowling family clan, in her routine, daily life. The book is a companion volume to the HBO documentary
of the same title and features Lehman's black-and-white photography. The film premiered at the Sundance Film
Festival in 1999 and was nominated for an Emmy Award.
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| Select image from American Hollow |
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| The Man in the Sycamore Tree |
Rice, Edward. The Man in the Sycamore Tree: The Good
Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970. Photographs illustrate the author's record of
the thought, life, work, and spiritual growth of the extraordinary Trappist
monk and writer.
The Man in the
Sycamore Tree offers an unconventional portrait of Thomas Merton by one of
his long-time friends from college.
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| The Tolkien Family Album |
Tolkien, John and Priscilla
Tolkien. The Tolkien Family Album. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Using family photographs and keepsakes to
trace the life of the popular British novelist, two of J. R. R. Tolkien's
children describe his education, World War I experiences, and family life. This charming, informal portrait fills in
with affectionate, familial detail the events to Tolkien's life.
