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Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait, 1803-2003

by Ian Adams

Summary

Ohio's 200th birthday is here and so is Ian Adams' masterful photographic
exposition, "Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait." Sole photographer of six books and
two long-running calendar series on Ohio, Adams contributed the winning image
picked by the US Postal Service for the official 2003 Ohio Statehood Stamp. With
over 300 lush photographs that he has selected for this composite portrait of
his home state, Ohio's premier landscape photographer treats Ohioans to a grand
tour of their state's natural and historical treasures, arranged into chapters
on Ohio's rocks, flowers, factories, conveyances, public art, schools, farms,
seasons, and wilds. Stephen Ostrander, pundit of all things Ohioan, serves up a
delicious but nutritious essay on each of Adams' pictorial themes. Adams and
Ostrander summon all their artistic skill and native pride to portray the
beautiful face of bicentennial Ohio: as it was, as it still is, as it has
changed, and as it may be again.

About the Author

A youthful emigrant to Ohio from Birmingham, England, Ian Adams has adjusted himself so well to his chosen country as to become the sole photographer of six books about Ohio and the Midwest and a regular contributor to numerous regional and national magazines, including "Ohio," "Ohio Week," "Ohio Motorist," "Plain Dealer," and "Midwest Living." He has also been the sole photographer for BrownTrout's "Wild & Scenic Ohio" calendars every year since 1989 and for its "Ohio Places" calendars since 1993.

An historian by training and a naturalist by
profession, Stephen Ostrander has written the definitive encyclopedic guidebook
to the natural wonders of Ohio, "The Ohio Nature Almanac."