Synopses & Reviews
Ohio's 200th birthday is here and so is Ian Adams' masterful photographic
exposition, Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait. With three hundred lush color
photographs that he has selected for this composite portrait, Ohio's premier
landscape photographer treats Ohioans to a grand tour of their state's
natural and historical treasures arranged into chapters on Ohio's rocks,
flowers, factories, conveyances, public art, schools, farms, seasons and
wilds. Stephen Ostrander, pundit of all things Ohioan, serves up a delicious
but nutritious essay on each of Adams' pictorial themes. Adams and Ostrander
summon all their artistic skill and close study to portray the beautiful
face of Ohio as it was, as it still is, as it has changed, and as it may be
again.