Illustrating Thoreau's Cape Cod: A Photographer's Story

This short film is about the creating of the photographs for the book, “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic.” While the bulk of the film is about Cape Cod, it opens with spectacular footage of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada and closes in Maine Woods.

ABOUT THE BOOK…

Originally published in 1865, Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod is a wonderfully written, surprisingly funny account of nineteenth-century life on the Cape well before it became a major tourist attraction. To this day, many people consider it the best book ever written about Cape Cod. This illustrated volume, published in 2008, features the complete text of Thoreau’s classic work as published in Houghton Mifflin’s 1906 edition, the stunning photography of Scot Miller, and a foreword from the preeminent Thoreau biographer, Robert Richardson. Many of the lush color photographs show elements of the landscape that Thoreau would have seen: the great beach, imposing cliffs, sand dunes, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, beach grass, seaweed; others reflect the unique personality of Cape Cod and its people today, including local artists and architecture. The combination of Thoreau’s timeless text and Miller’s exquisitely reproduced color photographs make this an indispensable book for anyone who loves Thoreau’s writing or Cape Cod.

[Michael-ykbx]

I just can't take enough photos of nature