"HOW TO FIND AND PHOTOGRAPH THE PHOTOS-SCENICS IN VERMONT”

The Famous 75 page, Yellow Covered, Vermont Photo-Scenic Guide Handbook, written by Arnold John Kaplan, APSA-AFIAP, who has been photographing in Vermont for the past 40 years. He wrote this famous photo guide to help other photographers, artists and tourists find these beautiful scenes because they are so hard to find on your own. You could drive right by many of them without even recognizing them, as the angle and composition from the roadside is incorrect. Photographers, artists and tourists from all over the world have requested this scenic guidebook before going to Vermont.

DON'T GO TO VERMONT WITHOUT IT:
You will save time, gasoline and money by knowing exactly where to find the Famous Vermont Photo Scenes as they are off the beaten track.. This Guide tells you the best time of day to be at each scene for the best lighting conditions and where to place your tripod or easel for the best composition. Also what photo equipment, clothing and supplies you will need,

SPECIAL FEATURES:
There is a description and bird’s–eye view drawing of each Photo-Scenic with the exclusive "Tri-Pod Hole" diagrams to show you exactly where to place your tripod for the best composition for each scene -- Complete detailed road maps and directions-- The best time of year t o go - - The best time of day for the best lighting conditions at each scene -- Hints and tips on each...

For us in the west, it all began in the Spring of 1950.

That was the time when LIFE magazine photojournalists David Douglas Duncan and Horace Bristol, in transit through Tokyo en route to cover the war raging in Korea, were persuaded by a young Japanese stringer to visit a camera factory in the Shinagawa district of the city.



Out of the chaos and rubble of World War II, Nippon Kogaku Kogyo Kaisha - Japan Optical Company Ltd., - struggled to rebuild its manufacturing programme; it had once employed 23,000 workers in more than 20 factories. Now it was reduced to 2 and a mere 1400 employees.



In the west, the regard for post war Japanese manufactured products of almost any description bordered on the dismissive. Certainly for cameras and optics, the general perception was that only Europe and the USA had the know-how to put together the high quality equipment demanded by professionals. But, as Duncan wrote to me years later after his Yankee Nomad was published in the 1960s, it was the young Japanese photographer's enthusiasm for the new products which persuaded him and Bristol to take time out of a busy schedule for the visit.

One can speculate on where Nippon Kogaku - the mighty and familiar Nikon of today, would be in the pecking order had...

I know when it's coming. A wave of nostalgia-like emotion takes over all rational thought after a rummage through the refrigerator in search of a snack only to find a roll of film on the wrong shelf; a session on the light box, or as now, a quiet moment spent flicking the pages of another good book.

The tome in question is nothing special in photographic terms, but Cote D'Azur by Pierre Borel published at thirty five shillings (one pound seventy five pence to you.) by Nicholas Kaye of London in 1957, contains 169 b+w heliogravure printed photo illustrations.


Hardly any of the photographs are what one might label outstanding, but they have, nonetheless, the characteristic appeal of an era now well past; content is arranged in a more formal compositional way, the emphasis on each frame of directional and contrasting lighting effects brought to bear on a potter's hands, or to give extra dimension to an image by way of contre-jour, to the carpet weaver's labour of love. This is a collection of workaday travel photos, but they are endowed with a certain charm rarely seen today in the colourful interpretations of stock photographers.

The 1950s and early 1960s marked the end of a period during which this treatment proliferated across a wide range of subjects since the late 1920s. The French exploited the technique more delicately perhaps than the Brits, but in either camp,...