Indiana is barn country. Beautiful, aged barns can be found everywhere from the most bucolic fields out to where the interstates usher travelers on cruise control through the state.
Once a dominant feature of the Hoosier terrain, these evocative structures are fast disappearing, giving way to more efficient, but less visually appealing, metal structures.
In a new coffee-table book from Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press, Indiana barns of all shapes and sizes are presented in a portfolio of photographs by Marsha Williamson Mohr — from every angle, in every state of repair or decay, and in every season. Mohr has been photographing barns, covered bridges and pastoral scenes all around Indiana and the country for over 20 years.
Indiana Barns presents 150 color photos in 152 pages. In addition to Mohr’s gallery, Duncan Campbell, director of the graduate program in historic preservation at Ball State University, outlines the history of these stately reminders of the past while capturing their essence in an introductory essay.
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About the book
Title: Indiana Barns
Author: Marsha Williamson Mohr, photographs; introduction by Duncan Campbell; foreword by Maurice Williamson
Publisher: Quarry Books, an imprint of Indiana University Press
Publication date: November 2010
Size: 152 pages, 155 color photos, 11x8.5 inches
Price: $29.95
To order: call 1-800-842-6796, or log onto:
http://iupress.indiana.edu