Author: Laughlin, Clarence John; John H. Lawrence; Patricia Brady and Jon Kukla
Title: Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
Description: Boston, Little, Brown, 1997. First edition, Signed. Hardcover. Black paper boards, yellow cloth spine with black lettering; bw illustrated dust jacket with white and yellow lettering, 105 pp, profusely illustrated with 69 duotone photographs. Signed on title page by John Lawrence, Patricia Brady, and Jon Kukla. Called "Edgar Allan Poe with a camera", Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1984) reveals New Orleans at its most brooding and mysterious in 65 images, both classic and unpublished. Compiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers.--From book jacket. Contents include: Introduction: The wonder and terror of Clarence John Laughlin / Jon Kukla -- Introduction to the photographs: Images and words / John H. Lawrence -- Poems of the interior world: Clarence Laughlin : the fullness of absence / Andrei Codrescu -- Visual poems: Clarence, a celebration / Ellen Gilchrist -- Plantation ghosts: Memory, mint juleps, and my grandfather / Shirley Ann Grau -- The magic of the object: An astonished eye looks out of the air / Jonathan Williams -- Fantasy in old New Orleans: Laughlin, Freud, cholesterol, and Kilz : a Cajun tour guide speaks of peace / Albert Belisle Davis -- Lost New Orleans: Terrible beauty : Clarence John Laughlin's mythologies of misery / John Wood -- Appendix: Clarence John Laughlin's descriptions of his photographic groups. VG+/VG (Pages are very crisp and clean.) .

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