Awards:
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2010 New England Book Awards
Finalist in the non-fiction category.
- New Hampshire chapter of the DAR: Certificate of Award for Historic Preservation, April 2010.
Reviews (scroll down for feature articles):
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Reader's Digest, September 2010
"The space, the solitude, the natural light, the worn wood that people walked on or touched -
a few of the reasons Paul Wainwright photographed the 30 Early American gathering places that remain
essentially unchanged today."
- Tom Prince, Executive Editor, Reader's Digest, September 2010
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"These 77 black & white images will not reach out and grab your attention by the throat;
this is not MTV.
You have to settle in with the book for a few moments, and stop to study its contents.
Read the scattered quotes from hymns written by William Billings.
Ponder.
You will be rewarded."
- Lisa Parsons,
Hippo Press, July 15, 2010
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Summer Books 2010
New Hampshire Public Radio: The Exchange, June 24, 2010.
Host Laura Knoy interviews independent bookstore owners
Dan Chartrand (Water Street Bookstore, Exeter NH),
Michael Herrmann (Gibson's Bookstore, Concord NH), and
Jeff Smull (Toadstool Bookshop, Keene NH).
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"As a new arrival in Boston, a Midwesterner with a history of confronting the cultural history of “out (or “back”) East,”
and a long-time admirer of Paul Strand’s Time in New England,
I can feel a synchronous meshing with Wainwright’s project and with the society these gathering places served."
- George Slade, Program Manager/Curator, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
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Feature Articles:
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"...they functioned as catch-all community centers with both municipal and religious uses...
With his large-format camera, Wainwright chose to photograph the 30 meetinghouses that have not become houses of worship."
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
on-line magazine, July 16, 2010
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"In the book, Wainwright combines history with fine art by capturing images of Colonial meetinghouses
from across the Granite State and New England.
Using natural light and today what may be considered
'old fashion' photographic techniques,
Wainwright captures both the expansive exteriors and the finer details of the meetinghouses,
giving readers an opportunity to explore the buildings intimately."
- Nancy Bean Foster,
New Hampshire Sunday News, July 18, 2010
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"His goal was not to create glossy, ready-for-postcard portraits of the proud old buildings
where townspeople once gathered to both vote on community business and to share their faith.
He set out to photograph the history, the souls of those buildings and the souls of those who gathered in them."
- Victoria Shouldis,
Concord Monitor, July 15, 2010
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A nice interview about my photography work can be seen in this Blog:
Making the Art Seen.
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"His large-format photography (no digital, no color, all natural lighting)
perfectly matches the colonial meetinghouses in his newest book.
In this interview, Wainwright talks about how and why he prefers to go slow in a fast world."
- SeacoastNH.com Art Book of the Week
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"Wainwright's latest creation was the culmination of five years of photographing
more than 30 of New England's storied Colonial meetinghouses.
His recently released first book, A Space for Faith, features those photographs."
- Bryan Deyermond, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, June 4, 2010
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"Wainwright's photographs are caretakers of memory and history."
- Justin Shatwell, Yankee Magazine, November/December 2009
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