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Walking With Thoreau

Posted by mjhmediaone on November 16, 2018
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33 full-color photographs

Photographs by Michael Jacobson-Hardy

with excerpts from the writings of Henry David Thoreau

 

“This book will be a great treat for any lover of Thoreau, or any lover of the damp and dramatic New England forest.” – Bill McKibben

“My goal in assembling my photographs alongside the text of Henry David Thoreau is to help the viewer remember to look at and appreciate our natural world and to imagine walking in the footsteps of one of the forefathers of environmentalism. As Thoreau took action through his living, walking and writing, we too can live in ways that take action to protect our natural resources and environments. It is in experiencing and valuing nature that we can move toward action.” – Michael Jacobson-Hardy

 

From the foreword by Tom Slayton – “Henry David Thoreau famously said that he had ‘traveled widely in Concord,’ implying that there was no need for him to travel elsewhere because the universe unfolded fully right in his home town. But in fact, Thoreau traveled extensively throughout New England, and some of his travels were truly adventurous, especially considering the mid-nineteenth century world he lived in…. And so, in at least a partial sense, his travels were quests, and he recorded the details of those trips and his thoughts about them in his various books (Cape Cod, The Maine Woods, Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers) and also in his masterwork, his multi-volume journal. Michael Jacobson-Hardy’s striking photographs were taken in and near several places that Thoreau frequented. They are records of those places, and also evidence that the world of Thoreau is still very much available to us, even in civilized, developed twenty-first century New England.”

BOOKS BY MICHAEL JACOBSON-HARDY

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BEHIND THE RAZOR WIRE

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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF LABOR

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FACTORIES SCHOOLS PRISONS

Praise for the photographs of Michael Jacobson-Hardy:

“Finely Crafted images—artfully composed and scientifically precise.”—Miles Unger, Boston Globe

“The remarkable portraits Michael Jacobson-Hardy has made inside prisons in Massachusetts represent visual evidence of invisible populations, invisible worlds: prisoners, cells, bars, corridors, guards, gates, doors, work settings (where, among other things, American flags are produced), and external landscapes—exercise yards, gun towers—all surrounded by cyclone fences and layer upon layer of razor wire.”

—Angela Y. Davis

“A stirring, beautiful, and upsetting book, handled with dignified restraint and artistry.”—Jonathan Kozol

“These stirring photographs are not just excellent portraits, but a portrait of the America that the power elites don’t want us seeing much less thinking about.”—Jim Hightower, best-selling author and national radio commentator

“Jacobson-Hardy’s photographs movingly capture the human side of “landscapes” all too often ignored. They strikingly illustrate the physical side of skilled and unskilled labor, and the shockingly unsafe conditions under which too many people work. The accompanying statements are poignant and painful, as the workers express their fears about job insecurity in circumstances over which they have little control. People want to work and are proud to work. But there have to be jobs that pay livable wages.”—William Julius Wilson, Director, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program and Malcolm Warner Professor of Social Policy, Harvard University

“The University Gallery of the University of Massachusetts Amherst presented The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces. It was one of the most popular and well-attended exhibitions in our twenty-year history.—Betsy Siersma, Director, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

“Jacobson-Hardy works very much in the social documentary tradition but without either the sentimentality or condescension sometimes associated with that genre. And, as in Walker Evan’s work, Jacobson-Hardy’s photographs have a strong aesthetic component with striking compositional geometry and handsome tonal modulations.”

—Ellen Lawrence, Director, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross

“The humanism of his approach pervades the pictures, individualizing the people whose identity has been reduced to that of inmate. Particularly eloquent are unpeopled interiors and exteriors of prison buildings, unremittingly antithetical to the possibility of normal human experience, let alone redemption.”—Lucy Flint-Gohlke, Curator, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

“If I were to describe Michael Jacobson-Hardy’s greatest strength, it would be his tenacity, commitment, and loyalty to the people with which his work is concerned. ”

—Sonia Nieto, Professor, University of Massachusetts School of Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

“Michael Jacobson-Hardy combines so many different talents and interests in one person and one life-work—a sensitivity to photography as both an aesthetically satisfying art-form and a socially powerful medium of political advocacy and a social conscience that adds an element of moral depth and seriousness to his important work.”—James Gilligan, M.D., Harvard Medical School

“It is the timelessness of the intense detail of almost arbitrary things—the twitch of complexity beyond our dream—that powers these images. Obsessive, reverent, frozen in time, like iron, they speak sadly of industrialism and the callousness which is instilled by repetition. I have a feeling it is always the machines which win. Reluctantly, we become their servants.”—Emmet Gowin, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University

“Inertia is the unexpected subtext of a remarkable new book by documentary photographer Michael Jacobson-Hardy,The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces. Jacobson-Hardy’s powerful images capture New England workers, some in scenes that were little different a century ago, others seemingly borrowed from a George Lucas movie set.”—Elizabeth S. Padjen, Art New England

 

POLAND PICTURES

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BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE MJH

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LATE TO WORK

THE BURDEN OF A 21ST-CENTURY RETIREMENT

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Wynton Marsalis Jazz Photos

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Wynton Marsalis Jazz Photos

WALKING WITH THOREAU

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NATIVE AMERICANS

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“Be still, and the earth will speak to you.” —Navajo proverb

“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” —Dakota

“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” —Native American Proverb

“Don’t be afraid to cry. It will free your mind from sorrowful thoughts.”—Hopi

“And the wind said,

may you be strong as the oak,

yet flexibile as the birch.

May you stand as tall as the redwood,

live gracefully as the willow and

may you always bear fruit

all the days on this earth.”—Native American Prayer

“When a man moves away from nature, his heart becomes hard.” —Lakota Proverb

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The mealing trough – Hopi ca. 1906 Four young Hopi women grinding grain.

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