Keeping Time in Sag Harbor
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Distributed by University of Chicago Press
Subjects:
Photography
Trim:
9 x 10
Page count:
312 pages
Illustration count and type:
312 pages
Publication date:
August
2007
by Stephen Longmire
Synopsis
For 300 years, Sag Harbor has been a prism reflecting facets of American
history, from its heyday as a whaling port worthy of mention in
Moby-Dick, to a factory town shipping out Bulova watches to its latest
reincarnation, as an alternative retreat to the exclusive Hamptons.
Stephen Longmire explores its many stories in Keeping Time in Sag Harbor.
Sag Harbor’s architecture encompasses buildings from the American
Revolution to the present, including the stately eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century mansions lining “Captains Row” and public buildings
such as the early Custom House. The work to protect this architecture in
the face of booming real estate development is at the heart of
Longmire’s account. Archival images and Longmire’s own color photographs
are interspersed with interviews with new and old residents, and
together they reveal the evolving character of the village, as the book
charts how Sag Harbor has struggled to retain its identity while
learning to sustain itself on tourism. Keeping Time in Sag Harbor
is an intimate portrait of a historic American village that stands as
an example of the challenge facing American communities from Santa Fe to
South Beach.
Author Biography
Stephen Longmire is a photographer and writer who has taught at
Georgetown University and Columbia College Chicago and has written for
such publications as Afterimage and Doubletake. His
photographs have been widely exhibited, including at the Museum of
Contemporary Photography and the Guild Hall in East Hampton, and are in
the permanent collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others.
