Four Seasons at the Shore: Photographs of the Jersey Shore in Bloomington, MN

For generations, people who have lived or vacationed at the New Jersey Shore
have felt deeply connected to it - no matter where they live now, or how long it
has been since they've had Jersey Shore sand between their toes. The evocative
pictorial book Four Seasons at the Shore - while not offering sand for the toes
- immerses the reader in this coast. From the ocean to the bay, from the sand
dunes to the salt marsh, from boardwalks to the amusements and arcades, this
book of 332 photographs and five essays capture the essence of the Shore from
Sandy Hook to Cape May and along the Delaware Bay.
Featuring extraordinary work from more than four dozen talented
photographers, this full-color hardcover documents and celebrates the shore.
With intimate essays about each season by noted shore writers, the book is an
appreciation and a tribute to this beloved coastline.
As John T. Cunningham - the dean of authors about New Jersey - writes in his
Prologue, it is the sensual shore that is revealed to us in this book: "Anyone
seeking enduring links to this stretch of seacoast finds them only when the
senses come into full play."
Four other writers share their personal interpretation of the Jersey Shore in
each season. Rich Youmans, co-author of Down the Jersey Shore and editor of
poetry and literary anthologies of this coast, gives us spring - punctuated with
visits to Shore towns, north to south. Sandy Gingras, author and creator of the
"How to Live" series of books, including How to Live at the Beach, writes
poetically about the embrace of summer. Autumn at the beach is described by
Larry Savadove, co-author of Great Storms of the Jersey Shore, and the novel,
The Oyster Singer. Margaret Thomas Buchholz, the other co-author of Great
Storms, editor of historical anthologies about the Shore and author of New
Jersey Shipwrecks, lets us feel winter in the bungalow near Barnegat Bay where
she grew up.
The 332 color images in the book are by professional photographers and
dedicated amateurs. They offer an eye for the details, the colors, forms, slant
of light, and seascapes that combine to make the Jersey Shore a visual
experience unique in America.