New PDF release: Robert W. Tebbs, Photographer to Architects: Louisiana

By Richard Anthony Lewis,Robert J. Jr. Cangelosi

ISBN-10: 0807142182

ISBN-13: 9780807142189

one of many best architectural photographers in the United States, Robert W. Tebbs produced the 1st photographic survey of Louisiana’s plantations in 1926. From these photos, now housed within the Louisiana nation Museum, and never greatly to be had earlier, 119 plates showcasing fifty-two houses are featured right here.

Richard Anthony Lewis explores Tebbs’s existence and occupation, situating his paintings alongside the road of plantation imagery from nineteenth-century woodcuts and work to later twentieth-century pictures via John Clarence Laughlin, between others. supplying the relatives lineage and development heritage of every domestic, Lewis discusses photographic thoughts Tebbs utilized in his alternating panoramic and element perspectives.

A unique documentarian, Tebbs additionally unearths a poetic sensibility within the plantation images. His widespread emphasis on elements of degradation, overlook, incompleteness, and loss lends a wistful air of mystery to some of the images—an influence compounded by way of the truth that a number of the houses now not exist. This obvious vacillation among objectivity and sentiment, Lewis indicates, indicates unfamiliarity or even pain with the legacy of slavery.

Poised near to social and political reforms, Louisiana within the mid-1920s had made major strides clear of the slave-based agricultural financial system that the plantation residence usually symbolized. Tebbs’s Louisiana plantation images seize a literal and cultural previous, reflecting a burgeoning nationwide understanding of ancient protection and providing plantations to us anew.

Select plantations incorporated: Ashland/Belle Helene, Avery Island, Belle Chasse, Belmont, Butler-Greenwood, L’Hermitage, Oak Alley, Parlange, René Beauregard apartment, Rosedown, Seven Oaks, Shadows-on-the-Teche, The colours, and Waverly.

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