Abandonings: Photographs of Otter Tail County, Minnesota

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Summary: wonderfull
Review: i found this book by ordering country barns notecards from amazon.com. Which where from this book i just look at the pictures and go ahh. Wonderful color really touched me

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Summary: Silent photographic brilliance of abandoned buildings
Review: Photographic quality and angle of pictures is superb. They lent a poignant yearning of this time period - how nice it would be to see the people and hear their voices at these sites. The accompanying text made the pictures more vivid. Wonderful book - when it is back in print, I'm going to buy it.

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Summary: Photographs that stun the visual senses
Review: This is an absolutely amazing book..... MacKenzie flies around his birthplace regions, and then finds these places, that once he photographs, become temples of the ravages of time. These are photos that make one sense's shudder at the visual touch of the moment when something went awry with a schoolhouse, or a barn or a house. He has frozen, via huge, elegant landscapes, a moment in time, an uncomfortable, but spectacular moment. I was stunned by these photographs and by the senseless beauty and brooding quality of them.