Reviews for Northern prairie wetlands

The average rating for Northern prairie wetlands based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-13 00:00:00 Andreas Ruckes Glorious, expressive photos of black life in Pittsburgh in the 1930s & 1940s & 1950s. From the introduction by Stanley Crouch, "Looking at these people as they work and as they play, as they primp and as they pray, as they compete and as they cooperate, as they eat and as they exist in that kind of open-eyed sleep we so perfectly describe as daydreaming, we begin to understand the contours of the national culture and how strongly it transcended superficial differences. Some of the mystery of our past is pushed aside by these pictures in favor of a range of specifics, and those specifics are as universal as they are particular." Amen. Another great introductory (to that Steel City Swing) quote : "Pittsburgh....is without exception the blackest place which I ever saw. As regards scenery, it is beautifully situated being just at the juncture of the two rivers, Monongahela and Allegheny....Nothing can be more picturesque that the site....Even the filth and wondrous blackness of the place are picturesque when looked down upon from above." ~Anthony Trollope, 1860

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-20 00:00:00 Dalton Kingsbauer This is a book about Pittsburgh from the perspective of a photographer of color beginning in the early 1940's. Interesting and balanced. Good photographer as well.