Product Description

To muster the smart brigade of one hundred outhouses exhibited in this book, eight dedicated photographers headed by Londie Padelsky have fanned out over the boggy backways of our nation and rallied into service stalwart sentinels of every style and state of repair. Each redolent image in Outhouses: Images and Contemplations is ornamented by an aid to contemplation in words—whether seasoned aphorism (Cicero), subtle arrière-pensée (La Fontaine), inverted innuendo (Swift), cutting couplet (Pope), or purgative panegyric (Roethke)—all tastefully selected to gratify the large philosophico-poetic appetites that are awakened by the Littlest House on the Prairie.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #729619 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 111 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent if you like this sort of thing
I am a gastroenterologist, that is, a physician who specializes in stomach and intestinal diseases. I bought this as a book for the waiting room. It is a well executed work. Photography is very high quality. Nicely bound. There are little sayings on each page that are not very noteworthy. For me it was the novelty that led me to purchase it, and my patients do find it amusing. There is nothing encyclopedic about it, so calling it a survey is overselling it. It is really just a sample of good photography where the outhouse is the main subject in each photograph.