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Sweep out cottage

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"Although taken over a five-year period, the photographs in Sweep Out Cottage timelessly evoke one single summer's day in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Here, with the wistful sense of an earlier era, is evidence of two people who love the simple things in life: gardening, reading, eating and drinking in their beautiful holiday surroundings. For some years now Peter Jones and his wife have rented the sweep out cottage every July, and in this quiet colonial hamlet they have realized a dream of summer as it should be, with the breeze off the water, the fragrance of flowers and soft fruit, a good book, a favorite chair, and the breakfast table set for another idyllic day. Jones has been involved with many aspects of photography all his adult life, but it is here in Sweep Out Cottage that he has found his own true artistic inspiration. The work in this, his first monograph, is not only a celebration of a place and a way of life; it is also an homage to a happy marriage and a time of blissful serenity"--Publisher's description.
Type
Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date
[2004]
Call number
653185
Creator
Jones, Peter C(Opens in new tab)
ISBN
1590050932
9781590050934
Provenance
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.
Dimensions
31 cm
Associated organization
Nazraeli Press,
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