New England Rediscovered

For over forty years, one name has risen to the top in New England photography: Ulrike Welsch. Since she arrived in Boston from her native Germany in 1964 with a camera slung on her back, "Uli" has shared a unique vision of her adopted homeland-not to mention the dozens of other countries she has photographed since. Her first images for the Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Herald, and the Boston Globe (where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize) were in black-and-white. Some of these classic New England images-tobacco farmers in the Connecticut River Valley, an aged farmer resolutely leading his workhorse over the ice-glazed fields of western Massachusetts, a Maine island lobsterman gazing dreamily from the doorway of his shack-are included in this extraordinary collection. But, as its name suggests, New England Rediscovered is no retrospective, no "greatest hits" collection. The heart of this book is Welsch's recent "rediscovering": over 150 new color photos from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Like the best-selling Boston Rediscovered, now in its sixth printing, this book is a mature vision, the summation of a career devoted to seeing clearly, from a unique perspective, and then seeing again. Commonwealth Editions is proud to continue its longstanding association with a remarkable artist.Welsch, Ulrike is the author of 'New England Rediscovered ' with ISBN 9781889833682 and ISBN 1889833681.