Product Description

Photographer Thomas Harding, armed only with his pinhole camera and a keen eye for the unusual, traveled thousands of miles of backroads and lanes to record the remnants of a vanishing genre of folk architecture--the outhouse. Harding boldly stepped where others might fear to tread. He followed the elusive drain from the Bible (Deuteronomy 23:12-13), to the Romans (indoor facilities over streams of water), to the lowly rural American outhouse. The intrepid Harding traced a little-known pipe-dream ....

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #456052 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

A real gem
I found this book quite by accident several months ago, and since then have given over ten as gifts. I never thought I'd like a book about outhouses, but this one is a real gem. The photos are very creative and evocative: Thomas Harding knows his stuff, as his years with the Bachrach Photographers can attest to. He's paired these lovely photos (of not-so-lovely subjects) with quotes from great literature, pulled out of context in the most hilarious ways. My favorite one is a picture of a "two-holer" paired with a classic Edmund Waller quote: "My joy, my grief, my love,/Did all within this circle move!" Give this book a chance, you'll be glad you did.