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An image of Monhegan
/ platinum prints by John Kleinhans ; introduction by Raymond
J. Steiner. - West Hurley (N.Y.) : Precipice publications,
1997. - 58 p. : ill. ; 19x24 cm.
ISBN 0-9660091-0-X
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DESCRIPTION : Monhegan Island, Maine, is one of
the treasures of America's seacoast. A scant square mile in area
and lying ten miles off the mainland, Monhegan, visited by John
Cabot in 1497, has been home to a fishing and lobstering community
since the 1700's. For a hundred years, the beauty and isolation
of the island has attracted artists
in large numbers. Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Robert Henri,
Edward Hopper and three generations of Wyeths are among the painters
who have worked there.
Photographer John Kleinhans has
explored this island since 1984. Working with large format cameras,
he creates quiet, contemplative platinum prints. An Image
of Monhegan presents a unique interpretation of defining
motifs of this magical place. A description of platinum printing
is included.
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RAYMOND J. STEINER : […]
Here lies the crux of [Kleinhans']
genius : his unerring ability to separate himself from his
subject, his willingness to allow the thing being photographed
to speak for itself, to shine forth without any interpolation
of formulaic theories of esthetics. Offering as it does a full
range of Monhegan « sights » — its
unique confrontation with the surrounding sea, its down-home
practical architecture — this series of images allows the
reader, much the same as it allows the visitor to island, to
come away with whatever private impression of Monhegan that one
wishes. Aside from the handiwork of man, there are few people
in Kleinhans' images, as if to insure the island's integrity
and aloofness from human intervention. Is it the stark, almost
forbidding seacoast side that lures the eye or the quieter coves
on the leeward side ? The wind-blasted tree or secluded
cottage garden ? The Hand of God or the hand of man ?
In a very real sense, Kleinhans'
images of Monhegan more closely reflects the written account
of those earlier chroniclers that do those of his painterly compeers,
closer, in fact, to the Monhegan that exists in objective reality
than those found in the artistic consciousness. « Here »
his photographs seem to say, is the island uncluttered by my
or anyone else's interpretation, figured forth for your interpretation
only. Make of this Monhegan your own legend, your own mythos.
[…]
☐ Introduction, p. 7
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| COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | - John Kleinhans, « An
image of Monhegan » new ed. with and introduction
by Edward L. Deci and a foreword by Will and Jane Curtis,
West Hurley (N.Y.) : Precipice publications, 2000
| - Alta Ashley, « Hark
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to 1985 », Monhegan (Maine) : Grey gull publications,
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of the other : island poems », Greenville (South
Carolina) : Fish press, 1998
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« Monhegan, the artist's island »,
Camden (Maine) : Down East books, 1995
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photographs of Eric Hudson », Gardiner (Maine) :
Tilbury house publishers, 1998
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fortunate island of Monhegan », Worcester (Mass.) :
The Davis press, 1922
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art of Monhegan Island », Camden (Maine) : Down
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S. P. Rolt Triscott : a Monhegan Island artist and photographer »,
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the cradle of New England », Portland (Maine) :
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- Richard Russo, « Le
phare de Monhegan, et autres nouvelles » trad. par
Jean-Luc Piningre, Paris : Quai Voltaire, 2004
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J. Bogdanove (1886-1946) : Monhegan summers »,
New York, 2001
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