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Otto Ping: Photographer of Brown County, Indiana, 1900-1940
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by W. Douglas Hartley, Stephen J. Fletcher, and Anne E. Peterson
Sales Rank: 1183871
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 95 pages
Published by: Indiana Historical Society September 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0871951053
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0871951052
Book Dimensions:
10 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Reader Reviews
If you are someone who never gets excited about looking at other people's photo albums, this book may have little appeal - - but then, you wouldn't be reading this in this first place. Brown County INDIANA, was slow in its transformation to become an 'electrified' county. Even when building a home in the late 1940s, electricity did not rush up our 'holler' to civilize us. Some of the pictures in this collection could have come from my album, although it may be unique ONLY for the portrait of a friend laying a fine stone foundation for the outhouse! Douglas Hartley edited the Otto Ping collection for the Indiana Historical Society, making a thoughtful selection for this book that has become a tribute to this county native who doubtless did not realize the importance of "recording the common". Ping began taking portraits at age 17 - to earn money in those very tight times in 1900. He had a mail-order camera and printed pictures from glass-plate negatives. He recorded glimpses of people who endured ongoing hardships - including that of forever being called "backwards." Among the last pictures shown in the book are two of outstanding cars! Also one of a baptism held in a snowy pond to show the strength of religious conviction to about thirty witnesses huddled nearby. There are also a few pictures of old and young pictured in death, a custom of the times. Stephen Fletcher served as Indiana Historical Society's curator of visual collections. In his essay for the book he urges readers to "discover the significance that lies beyond the intent of these genuine, regardful, and considered images." Reviewer mcHAIKU will never be considered a native but is moved by the many worn but formidable faces shown in Otto Ping's portraits, and assures readers that there is much satisfaction to be gotten from studying those who carried their burdens with honesty and determination.
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