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(More customer reviews)We expect coffee-table books to make us feel and look good by displaying them. Accordingly, this one will not disappoint. But have you ever started one and not stopped reading until you finished? I hadn't until now.
Ms. Stone's straightforward yet engaging prose is deceptively complex in weaving an historical tapestry integrating the iconography of the selected pictures. Readers may not even notice that Ms. Stone quietly leads us through far-reaching context, perspective and insight, which transcend the commonality of this genre.
In this book, Ms. Stone proves an historian's historian because, counter to our educational system, she shows us that history is about the meaning of what happened, not rote repetition of names, dates and events. Almost subliminally, Ms. Stone masterfully works in teasers that keep readers turning pages to see and learn more.
For students of black-and-white photography, flipping through this beauty will be shocking. While most historic-photo books are a front-to-back muddle of middle gray, the publisher and printer of "Historic Photos of Orange County" provide us with a full range of artistic contrast (Picker's Zone I through Zone IX).
Finally! Here's a décor-enhancing tome that is more substance than window-dressing. You might just enjoy it more by reading it than showing it off.
Dean O. Dixon
Buena Park, CA
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