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Title: Colorado, 1870-2000 by William Henry Jackson, John Fielder, Ed Marston, Eric Paddock, Roderick Nash ISBN: 1-56579-347-1 Publisher: Westcliffe Pub Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Tale of Two Books
Comment: John Fielder is one of America's greatest living photographers, and he brings his love of the Colorado wilderness to this book. His re-shoots of Jacksons 19th century photographs are both beautiful and thought-provoking.... the photographs make it worthwhile.
On the other hand, the text is a different story. Reading a text-only version of this book, one might conclude that the title is a misprint, and that the book should really be called "Colorado 1970 - 2000." Fielder roamed across Colorado capturing the changes in places like Kremmling, Denver, and Ouray, but the text never tells us anything about these places, or why they changed, or why we should care. Instead we get chapters about oil shale and the Forest Service.
Ahem. If I wanted to read about the relationship between Forest Service bureaucrats and small Western towns, I would have bought a book called "The Relationship Between the Forest Service and Small Western Towns." My book is called "Colorado 1870 - 2000." That is what I want to read about.
It's true that oil shale schemes, government agencies, and others have played a role in shaping Colorado in the past 30 years. But before that there were events like the Silver Crash of 1893, the City Beautiful movement, the Depression, World War II, and Urban Renewal. You won't read about those in this book.
The pictures are beautiful, and the text is well-written (if misplaced and unwanted). Just don't expect to learn much about the places you are looking at- except that they are very pretty.
Rating: 5
Summary: Check it out!
Comment: This book is one of the most spectacular that I have seen. John Fielder has catpured Colorado's true beauty in his photos. I would recommend this book to anyone, especially people who have never been to Colorado. I'm from colorado myself, and I never knew that Colorado had such beauty tucked away. The difference in the age span of the pictures truely amazing. Some places have changed so much, but some are left untouched...still pure.
Rating: 2
Summary: Binding Fell Apart
Comment: I noticed the review that said this book was worthy of "permanent display on your coffee table." Well, I don't think that will be possible with my book, as the binding fell apart after 6 months. The book has gotten a fair amount of use, but nothing out of the ordinary. I've since seen a similar problem with a couple of the display copies at bookstores (which is why they've been demoted to display copies). So I don't think this is an isolated problem. It seems like the book is so big that they didn't make a strong enough binding for it. So just a warning for this thinking of buying this book. The good news is that, on the advice of one of the reviews, I bought Colorado: Yesterday & Today to replace my copy of Colorado: 1870-2000. I agree that it is the better book and now it will be on permanent display on my coffe-table.
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Title: Colorado : Yesterday & Today by Joseph Collier, Grant Collier ISBN: 1890437484 Publisher: Western Reflections Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Colorado Autumn by John Fielder ISBN: 1565790839 Publisher: Westcliffe Pub Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: John Fielder's Best of Colorado by John Fielder ISBN: 156579429X Publisher: Westcliffe Pub Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: I Never Knew That About Colorado: A Quaint Volume of Forgotten Lore by Abbott Fay ISBN: 1890437174 Publisher: Western Reflections Inc Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction & Betrayal by Dick Kreck, Thomas J. Noel ISBN: 1555914632 Publisher: Fulcrum Pub Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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