Down in Savannah we picked up Images of America: Historic Bonaventure Cemetery, by Amie Marie Wilson and Mandi Dale Johnson. This is the cemetery that was the central image of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It's a very Romantic place, and well worth the visit. We spent a couple of hours there, and could happily have spent a couple ( Read more... )

        Okay, listing On Reading, André Kertész's classic volume of photographs from the mid-20th century, as my 8th completed book of the year feels like cheating. The only reading involved was the brief introduction, and the dates and locations listed in the back.

I have no integrity, it's clear.

Kertész was a Hungarian ( Read more... )

         George B. Abdill's Civil War Railroads: A Pictorial Story of the War between the States, 1861-1865 has been around 1961, and I'd consulted it in libraries before. The University of Indiana Press brought it out again, and I finally gave in and purchased it.
        Well, it's a classic. Abdill collected as many photographs of Civil War ( Read more... )