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Chester Eisenhuth, Photographer

1930s Millerton, New York 1950s

by Mark Goodman

Hardcover, Dust Jacket
Linen cover with full-color dust jacket and flaps
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About the Book
MARK GOODMAN/Blurb Book #3. [2016] Chester Eisenhuth, 1910-1995, was the local historian of Millerton, New York for more than four decades, as well as an amateur painter and photographer. This book presents fifty-one full-page reproductions of his photographs, primarily portraits taken for pleasure and sometimes for profit, between the 1930s and 1950s, of family members, friends, fellow townspeople, a dog, and Mr. Eisenhuth’s cat, Rudy, on his twentieth birthday in 1943. The original negatives were rediscovered and printed in the 1970s by Mark Goodman. Mr. Eisenhuth’s photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, the Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
Features & Details
  • Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
  • Project Option: Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
    # of Pages: 120
  • Isbn
    • Hardcover, Dust Jacket: 9781366639592
  • Publish Date: Dec 12, 2016
  • Language English
  • Keywords amateur photography, 1940s, Upstate New York
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About the Creator
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Mark Goodman
Austin, Texas

Mark Goodman, a 1970 graduate of Boston University in Anthropology, studied with Minor White during a 1970 photography workshop. A year later, he attended Apeiron Workshops in Photography and began a twenty-year project documenting (photographs and audio tapes) a generation of children growing up in the nearby village of Millerton, New York. He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977); his photographs were featured in Aperture 19:4 (1975); exhibited in a one-person show at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York (1980-1981) ; and A Kind of History: Millerton, New York 1971-1991 was selected by Vince Aletti in the Village Voice as one of the Top Ten Best Photography Books of 2000. Between 1980 and 2013, he was a professor of photography at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2005, he has published limited pigment print and Blurb books, portfolios of photographs, and personal essays.

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