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Harry C. Dorer roamed New Jersey for four decades from 1920 until 1954 with his boxy Speed Graphic camera, capturing for a weekly newspaper the images of what is now a vanished landscape. From the state's cities and villages to its rural areas to the then-mysterious Pine Barrens and the fishing fleets at the Jersey Shore, Dorer amassed hundreds of images that revealed the region's rapidly changing countryside, customs, and social dynamics. Distinguished for his journalistic eye, Dorer did not search out "pretty" subjects. His photographs of Pine Barrens residents are both gritty and charming—honest depictions of quiet people living in poverty. His scenes of rural northern New Jersey are equally blunt, bearing stark witness to the rudimentary living conditions in the days before good roads and electricity came to counties such as Sussex and Warren. His photographs of the state's Ku Klux Klan presence and the tragedy of the passenger ship Morro Castle are raw history. Dorer, however, did have an eye for reader appeal and a sense of beauty as well. His cloud effects are stunning, turning ordinary scenes into landscape portraits. Likewise, his photographs of children, ranging from poor kids in Newark taking an illegal dip in the Wars of America fountain to the children of the Pine Barrens lined up by the family car, are compassionate and delightful. Bringing together more than 300 of Dorer's photographs, this stunning collection is no ordinary look at New Jersey's past. Dorer's always incisive eye provides a visual record of the state's history that is unsettling, shocking, enchanting, and endearing. Above all, his photographs are a vivid reminder of how much the state haschanged.
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Cynthia Morcott
reviewed This Was New Jersey: As Seen by Photographer Harry C. Dorer on September 01, 2013
This Was New Jersey: As Seen by Photographer Harry C. Dorer
Before he became a writer, Rulfo took photographs, as an amateur, as he traveled for a couple of jobs he had. Years later, they curated out of the 6,000 negatives he had on hand for a show.
From the '40's and '50's, he captures a world already disappearing. Peasant life, ancient runes. He is not a mere documentarian, there is soul in his photos as well. The light, the shadows, the sense of depth and perspective. He knew how to photograph - front, middle and back highlights in almost all of his photos.
He was very interested in architecture, with pages upon pages of writing on the history of it in Mexico. It shows in these photos, some of which may have been used if the book had ever been completed, and published.
This collection is stunning. I have not thumbed through a collection of photographs in years, and I was just overwhelmed by the photos included here.
The collection starts out with 6 essays - the first (Carlos Fuentes) and last (Erika Billeter - giving some background to their province) are the best. The other 4 rather blather on about abstract ideas, and try to tie his writing and his photos together, and never really get there.
Amazingly this book was overstocked at one time - mine has the black mark on the bottom of the pages. I paid about $100 for mine - it now goes for $375-400 on amazon! There are other collections of his photos - some for much less, some for much more.
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