Daily, In A Nimble Sea silas-finch

Daily, In A Nimble Sea silas-finchDAILY, IN A NIMBLE SEA is an anagram of BAILEY ISLAND, MAINE, where a tiny stretch of coastline is incessantly transformed by the interactions of fog, sun, and tides. When the tide goes out, a rocky field of seaweed is revealed. To walk across it is to traverse the ocean floor in the open air. It is a magical place, and for seven summers the artist has watched his children grow and change against this backdrop. Photographs put up a feeble defense

the book was remaindered and went out of print four years later

december 1998

Girls getting ready

Photography became not only a device to record and teach

Mangan’s pictures transport the reader into an alternate reality of the boys’ making: where they explore the rugged terrain of southern Utah

Gary Briechle has forged many long-term relationships with the people he has photographed since moving to Maine nearly 20 years ago

the poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost forty years

I study them as if they were surveillance photos from a satellite or a hidden camera

an association that comes naturally for a creature that exists so comfortably between earth and the heavens

This book aims to revive interest in an artist who

140 four color plates

where the trials of actual experience and his mind's nocturnal dream machinery are indistinguishable