Download PDF by John Witek,Deborah Novak: Huntington: The Levi Holley Stone Collection (Images of

By John Witek,Deborah Novak

A flea industry discovery that turned an artwork museum sensation, this choice of pictures through Levi Holley Stone offers the town of Huntington, West Virginia, because it hasn't ever noticeable earlier than. Stone�s lens finds a urban of contrasts: a mix of huge boulevards and crumbling alleys, a mixture of monuments and dust. it's a position the place vehicles percentage the line with horses, roughnecks loiter in pool halls, and theatergoers get pleasure from extravagant musicals direct from Broadway. newbies flocked to this advertisement hub at the Ohio River, and Stone�s pictures of steamboats, trains, and motor vehicles exhibit how they traveled. He captured the river, too, whilst it was once frozen adequate to stroll throughout and livid sufficient to drown the town greater than as soon as. Stone was once born in Huntington in 1898, and he photographed his place of birth obsessively. Even his closest associates by no means knew that the images they took with no consideration have been delicate works of art.

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