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America by the Yard: Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century

by Robert B Mackay

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ISBN13: 9780393051605
ISBN10: 0393051609
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An astonishing collection of early panoramic photographs, many up to 5 feet wide.

This book is both a history of an unusual camera and a splendid display of its product. "Yard longs," as the Cirkut camera's huge panoramic photographs were called, caused a sensation after the camera's introduction in the early twentieth century. Cirkut cameras were used to record scenic vistas, epic events, and group photographs of conventioneers, workers, soldiers, and students. Here, with many foldouts that show the prints in their full glory, are such historic moments as the building of the Panama Canal, the sunken battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, the crash of the dirigible Shenandoah, the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1908 Wellesley graduating class, and a very early race at the Indianapolis Speedway. More mundane subjects—a bathing beauty contest, locomotive factory workers—are equally fascinating in this format. Collectively these panoramas form a remarkable portrait of America at the turn of the last century. 16" x 11", 80 photographs; 8 4-panel, 2 6-panel gatefolds.

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By augmenting his history of a particular type of camera with many examples, both momentous and quotidian, of its usage, MacKay has produced a fascinating piece of Americana. Cirkut cameras, which took panoramic photographs known as "yard-longs," were used to record scenic vistas, epic events and group photos of conventioneers, workers, soldiers and students. The prints reproduced here, with many foldouts that show the photographs in their entirety, include such historic moments as the building of the Panama Canal, the crash of the dirigible Shenandoah, the 1908 Wellesley graduating class and a very early race at the Indianapolis speedway. MacKay, a collector of Cirkut camera panoramas, is the director of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

An astonishing collection of early panoramic photographs, many up to 5 feet wide.

About the Author

Robert B. MacKay is president of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities and the author of Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects. He lives in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.

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ISBN:
9780393051605
Subtitle:
Cirkut Camera: Images from the Early Twentieth Century
Author:
Mackay, Robert B
Author:
MacKay, Robert B.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
Subject:
Photoessays & Documentaries
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
Subject:
Photography, Panoramic - United States -
Publication Date:
December 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
232
Dimensions:
11 x 16 in

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