Olmsted Trees
Photographs by Stanley Greenberg, with contributions by Tom Avermaete, Kevin Baker, Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Hirmer Publishers, August 2022

Hardcover | 9 x 11 inches | 160 pages | 100 illustrations | German/English | ISBN: | $X.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Central Park in New York, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, park systems in Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Rochester and Louisville ? trees have been essential elements of all of Olmsted?s park designs. New York-based photographer Stanley Greenberg pays tribute to them with his portrait series of these beautiful and dignified giants. Three essays by renowned experts on history, sociology and landscape architecture complement the narrative and present an interdisciplinary vision on Olmsted?s achievement. Stanley Greenberg?s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has published several books of photography.
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Frederick Law Olmsted was born in April 1822 and died in August 1903. The multifaceted journalist, social critic, farmer, and public administrator is best known as a landscape architect ? the most influential landscape architect in the United States, if not the world. Central Park, which he and Calvert Vaux designed and won a competition for in 1858, is Olmsted's first and most famous landscape: 843 acres in the middle of Manhattan. If one wants to experience an Olmsted, Central Park ...