Background
Stilgoe was born in Norwell, Massachusetts in 1949. His father was a boatbuilder.
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Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene Paperback September 10, 1985
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
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Alongshore by Professor John R. Stilgoe (1996-02-21)
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Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe (1982-04-01)
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Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
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Landscape and Images
( John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more diffi...)
John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone who stops to look isn’t only a rarity; he or she is suspect. Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America’s constructed landscapes. Stilgoe’s essays follow the eclectic trains of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of "teen geography" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o’ lanterns becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural Midwest for the classic image of itself. At times breathtaking in their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe’s observations speak to specialists―whether they be artists, historians, or environmental designers―as well as to the common reader. Our landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent. The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.
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Alongshore by Professor John R. Stilgoe (1996-02-21)
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Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English by John R. Stilgoe (2003-03-01)
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Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845
(This book explains how and why the landscape changed betw...)
This book explains how and why the landscape changed between the times of the early Spanish settlers and the impact of industrialization. The builders who created and maintained the American landscape until 1845 learned mostly from one another.
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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape by John R. Stilgoe (2014-03-04)
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John R. Stilgoe: Old Fields : Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape (Hardcover); 2014 Edition
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Shallow Water Dictionary
(Shallow Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the ric...)
Shallow Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the richness of our vernacular language and a lament on its passing – and with it, the passing of the words we need to understand our shallow water regions, once the primary landscape of America and now facing extinction, both physical and linguistic. This small book is an intriguing and valuable addition to our knowledge of a changing landscape. Literary, etymological, historical, and vernacular investigations of such varied terms as “guzzle,” “creek,” and “chartreuse,” Stilgoe’s definitions are lyric explanations of words whose original meanings have been eroded by time.
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Alongshore
(Along the shore are fishing boats and lighthouses, wharve...)
Along the shore are fishing boats and lighthouses, wharves and piers, resorts and shipwrecks - picturesque vistas that are visited and photographed but have never before been scrutinized from a historical or cultural perspective. In this enchanting book, John R. Stilgoe takes us on a tour of the seacoast, evoking its sights, sounds, and textures, and showing how it illuminates issues of landscape and of American culture. Drawing on sources as diverse as Thoreau and Kate Chopin, agricultural newspapers and the Hardy Boys, and always emphasizing his own hikes and small-boat passages along the coast, Stilgoe provides a guidebook for anyone intrigued by the seacoast, "the last place in which adult Americans walk barefoot." He describes guzzles (configurations of sand), gunkholes (unfrequented harbors), and loomings (optical phenomena on the horizon). He explains why watchtowers stand guard all along the Atlantic coast; why wharves are perennially decaying; the different ways that pirates have been perceived through the centuries; and why local women of the shore towns wear bikinis. Like the sea itself, Stilgoe's Alongshore invigorates and exhilarates, drawing us back to its pleasures again and again.
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Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe (1982-04-03)
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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
( Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even l...)
Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension. In Old Fields, John Stilgoe―one of the most original observers of his time―offers a poetic and controversial exploration of the generations-long effort to portray glamour. Fusing three forces in contemporary American culture―amateur photography after 1880; the rise of glamour and fantasy; and the often-mysterious quality of landscape photographs―Stilgoe provides a wide-ranging yet concentrated take on the cultural legacy of our photographic history. Through the medium of "shop theory"―the techniques, tools, and purpose-made equipment a maker uses to realize intent―Stilgoe looks at the role of Eastman Kodak in shaping the ways photographers purchased cameras and films, while also mapping the divisions that were created by European-made cameras. He then goes on to argue that with the proliferation of digital cameras, smart phones, and Instagram, young people’s lack of knowledge about photographic technique is in direct correlation to their lack of knowledge of the history of glamour photography. In his exploration of the rise of glamour and fantasy in contemporary American culture, Stilgoe offers a provocative and very personal look into his enduring fascination with, and the possibilities inherent in, creating one’s own images.
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Metropolitan Corridor Railroads And The American Scene
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Landscape and Images by John R. Stilgoe (2005-05-04)
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
(A fascinating prehistory of the American suburb, from its...)
A fascinating prehistory of the American suburb, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to the onset of World War II. Using a rich array of contemporary written and pictorial sources, prize-winning historian John Stilgoe guides us through the early suburbs of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and other cities, showing us not only what they looked like but what life was like for the men and women who lived there. Highly readable and generously illustrated, the book provides new insights into the lives of the first suburbanites and teaches us to appreciate anew this important aspect of the American way of life. "Borderland offers a fresh perspective on the zone between rural space and urban residential rings, and it challenges our assumptions about what constitutes a good life."-Kenneth Jackson, Progressive Architecture "In chronicling this great exodus and its impact - on culture, women, architecture and myriad other aspects of American society - Stilgoe displays wit, scholarship, and insight, as well as delight in searching out meanings in his sources. . . . The book itself is handsome and well-illustrated, blessed with a lively text, saturated with evocative and vivid detail."-David Slovic, Philadelphia Inquirer "A provocative look at American culture. . . . Borderland makes serious social history accessible and engaging."-Caryn James, New York Times "Stilgoe's research is thorough, his approach original and engaging, and his book a delight to read, filled with illustrations-pictorial and verbal-that help illustrate the phenomenon more clearly and deeply."-Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor
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Borderland Origins Of The American Suburb 1820-1939
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Borderland : Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John B. Stilgoe. Yale University Press,1988
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John R. Stilgoe (1990-07-25)
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 Paperback - July 25, 1990
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Alongshore
(Alongshore by John R. Stilgoe. Yale UP,1994)
Alongshore by John R. Stilgoe. Yale UP,1994
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John Robert Stilgoe
Edit ProfileEducation
He graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1971, and from Purdue University with an Master of Arts He entered Harvard"s Doctor of Philosophy program in American Civilizations in 1973, where he studied under J. B. Jackson, a landscape architect known for his studies of vernacular American landscapes.
Career
He is also a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He was featured on a 60 Minutes episode in 2004 entitled "The Eyes Have lieutenant". In 1973.
"Education ought to work outdoors, in the rain and the sleet, in the knife-like heat of a summertime Nebraska wheat field, along a half-abandoned railroad track on a dark autumn afternoon, on the North Atlantic in winter.
All that I do is urge my students and my readers to look around, to realize how wonderfully rich is the built environment, even if the environment is only a lifeboat close-hauled in a chiaroscuro sea.".
Achievements
Works
book
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Shallow Water Dictionary
(Shallow Water Dictionary is both a celebration of the ric...)
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Alongshore
(Along the shore are fishing boats and lighthouses, wharve...)
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Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845
(This book explains how and why the landscape changed betw...)
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
(A fascinating prehistory of the American suburb, from its...)
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Borderland Origins Of The American Suburb 1820-1939
(Borderland : Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by...)
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Landscape and Images
( John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more diffi...)
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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
( Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even l...)
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Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene Paperback September 10, 1985
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
-
Alongshore
(Alongshore by John R. Stilgoe. Yale UP,1994)
- Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
- Alongshore by Professor John R. Stilgoe (1996-02-21)
- Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe (1982-04-01)
- Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene
- Alongshore by Professor John R. Stilgoe (1996-02-21)
- Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English by John R. Stilgoe (2003-03-01)
- Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape by John R. Stilgoe (2014-03-04)
- John R. Stilgoe: Old Fields : Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape (Hardcover); 2014 Edition
- Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845 by John R. Stilgoe (1982-04-03)
- Metropolitan Corridor Railroads And The American Scene
- Landscape and Images by John R. Stilgoe (2005-05-04)
- Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John R. Stilgoe (1990-07-25)
- Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 Paperback - July 25, 1990
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Shallow Water Dictionary
