An Outhouse by Any Other Name
Author | : Thomas Harding |
Publisher | : august house |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : 087483578X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780874835786 |
Rating | : 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Download or read book An Outhouse by Any Other Name written by Thomas Harding and published by august house. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Thomas Harding, armed only with his pinhole camera and a keen eye for the unusual, traveled thousands of miles of backroads and lanes to record the remnants of a vanishing genre of folk architecture--the outhouse. Harding boldly stepped where others might fear to tread. He followed the elusive drain from the Bible (Deuteronomy 23:12-13), to the Romans (indoor facilities over streams of water), to the lowly rural American outhouse. The intrepid Harding traced a little-known pipe-dream ....