Look Up Asheville, a new book chronicling the history of Asheville’s wonderful architecture, is set for release this November. Here’s more, from lookupasheville.com:
Look Up Asheville is a creative exploration of Asheville’s architecture rendered through stunning photography by Michael Oppenheim and creative prose by Laura Hope-Gill.
This journey through Asheville’s Eclectic architecture takes us back in time to the early 20th century, the Golden Age of Engineering and the rise of this mountain town to international regard as the “Paris of the South.” Asheville’s early architects experimented with new materials while exploring styles of the past, from Romanesque to Renaissance and Neo-Classical and also reached for the new Art Deco and European Style.
Their creations invite us to see through the present and explore the millennia of masonry.
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Just created a new commercial and personal photography blog where I’ve announced the release of my first photography book (where I’m the exclusive photographer), “Look Up Asheville”, written by Laura Hope-Gill (first poet laureate of the Blue Ridge Mountains and organizer of Asheville Wordfest) and published by Grateful Steps Publishing. The book will be printed by Biltmore Press making this a truly local book-making effort! We are very excited about the release! Look for it in bookstores November 1!