Heirloom Harvest: Modern Daguerreotypes of Historic Garden Treasures

Amy Goldman is doing a beautiful job in one small area of this science and encourages others to do the same." Martha Stewart on MELONS"What a book! It's gorgeous, inspiring, truly awesome." Deborah Madison on COMPLEAT SQUASH“Luscious This is a book to inspire passion.” starred review, Publishers Weekly on HEIRLOOM TOMATO. Heirloom-plant conservationist Amy Goldman's fascinating passages complement the arresting pictures." Organic Life"Jerry Spagnoli, a daguerreotypist, met Amy Goldman, a champion vegetable grower and heirloom plant conservationist, in 2000 what began with photos of a few squash that Goldman brought to Spagnoli’s Chelsea studio eventually grew into days spent on the farm, photographing freshly harvested specimens and those still on the vine the result is a series of idiosyncratic portraits of vegetables and fruits that

She is the author of Melons for thePassionate Grower, The Compleat Squash, and The Heirloom Tomato. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and others.M Mark founded the Village Voice Literary Supplement and PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers.. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York.Jerry Spagnoli is America's pre

Martha Jones said Interesting but not great.. This was Book had an interesting topic, but the photographs were not as interesting or as good throughout as indicated by the cover photo. It is not worth the price charged.. Gorgeous Images Beautiful book for anyone interested in photography and/or gardening.. A most beautiful book. Extraordinary photography - will be a handsome peachie A most beautiful book. Extraordinary photography - will be a handsome gift for friends: he is learning to make daguerrotypes and she is a consummate gardener although not at the caliber of Amy Goldman.

In Heirloom Harvest, Amy's essay, "Fruits of the Earth," describes her twenty-five year collaboration with the land. Over fifteen years, the acclaimed photographer Jerry Spagnoli has visited Amy's gardens to preserve these cherished varieties in another way--with the historical daguerreotype process, producing ethereal images with a silvery, luminous depth and a timeless beauty, underscoring the historical continuity and value of knobby gourds, carrots pulled from the soil, and fruit picked fresh from the tree. The text along with Jerry Spagnoli's photographs and an afterword by M Mark add up to an exquisite package, an artist's herbarium worthy of becoming an heirloom itself.. On two hundred acres in the Hudson Valley, Amy Goldman grows heirloom fruits and vegetables--an orchard full of apples, pears, and peaches; plots of squash, melons, cabbages, peppers, tomatoes, eggplants, and beets. The president of the New York Botanical Garden has called her "perhaps the world's premier vegetable gardener." It's her life's work, and she's not only focused on the pleasures of cultivating the land and feeding her family--she's also interested in preserving our agricultural heritage, beautiful and unique heirlooms that truly are organic treasures