PhotoBooks Wisconsin

Award-winning photographer Richard Hamilton Smith's images of Northern Wisconsin reveal a complex landscape both apparent and mysterious, meditative and dynamic, vast yet intimate. In these photographs we see the north in all its seasons, an ever-changing landscape of extremes, where weather is a genuine presence and human influence is at once tenuous and resilient. Time passes in a moment, in an instant, then is gone forever, yet preserved in this stunning edition to be cherished all year long. Sit back in your favorite armchair and embark on this mesmerizing journey at your leisure, making your way to the Spirit of the North.

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Farmer/journalist Will recounts the history of the peoples of Wisconsin--the first inhabitants, the Chippewa and the Dakota Sioux; the 19th-century Irish, German, and Scandinavian pioneers; and the urbanites, progressive and industrialist, who shaped the state's character in the years that followed. Photos.

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The stunning Photographic Tour series continues. Spectacular photography and compelling text and captions capture the essence of each particular destination. Each book includes an illustrated map, an Introduction with black-and-white archival photographs, and more than 100 vibrant, full-color photographs.

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This lavish visual celebration of Wisconsin pairs one hundred historic photographs with one hundred recent photos by some of the state's finest present-day documentary photographers and photojournalists. This comprehensive and creative rephotography project documents in extraordinary and inventive ways rural and urban landscapes, communities, and social activities over the course of 150 years.

Whether portraying past and present immigrants, changing Main Streets, "modern" kitchens, prize cows, Kohler plumbing fixtures, or Green Bay Packer fans, these photographs document both continuity and change. Wisconsin Then and Now includes essays by Nicolette Bromberg, who conceived and oversaw the three-year rephotography project, and by geographers Thomas R. Vale and Steven Hoelscher who comment on the evolving cultural and physical landscape as seen through the lens of a camera. Drawn from the vast photograph collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the older photographs are complemented by new work from more than twenty photographers, whose own notes add fascinating commentary to many of the photographic pairs.

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Our Wisconsin River: Border to Border captures the magic of "America's hardest working river". For the past year photographer Nels Akerlund has been combing the banks of this 427 mile liquid highway by car, foot and kayak to capture the beauty of the waterway the Algonquin Indians called "Wees-Konsan", or the gathering of the waters. Akerlund's stunning color photographs are complemented by the historic black & white images to give readers a complete view of this diverse river. The text of the 112 page book by Joe Glickman explores the often tragic and humorous tales of the Indians, missionaries, explorers, lumberjacks, and the assorted collection of eccentrics that inhabited it's banks. In addition, there is the adventurous story of Akerlund, Glickman, and Nel's father Dan, who spent two weeks during the summer of '96 braving the flooded waters, headwinds, and storms, as they portaged their heavily loaded kayaks around the 26 dams that interrupt the river from it's source at Lac Vieux Desert to the mouth at the Mississippi River.

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The Lower Wisconsin River is one of the last long stretches of undammed waterway in the Midwest. This exquisite photo essay reveals the timelessness of the river and the land along its banksprimeval sloughs, towering bluffs with their sandstone terraces, wetlands awash in spring floods, and low prairies so rich and varied that they yield both cactus and cattails. Jill Metcoff has spent some twenty years photographing the ninety-three miles of the lower river from Prairie du Sac to the Mississippi with antique large- and medium-format cameras. These 104 photographs, lavishly printed and evocatively capturing the landscape in shades of black and white, are in the tradition of Eliot Porter and H. H. Bennett. They are accompanied throughout the book by voices of the region, including Aldo Leopold, August Derleth, John Muir, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as contemporary voices from public hearings on the future of the Lower Wisconsin riverway. This landscapeeons old and left untouched by the glaciers that ground much of Wisconsins ancient landforms into gravelhas escaped major development despite its location within 200 miles of more than twenty million people. But all that could change tomorrow. Metcoffs work is a passionate appeal to view and value the riverway in all its variety and grandeur.

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