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North Fork Living: Rustic Splendor on Long Island's East End | 
 enlarge | Author: Harry Haralambou
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
Buy New: $7.12
You Save: $27.88 (80%)
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 287434
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 9.5 x 1
ISBN: 0810993007
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.47210444
EAN: 9780810993006
ASIN: 0810993007
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new book - May have a remainder mark.
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Product Description
As anyone familiar with city life knows very well, the constant demands of career, family, and social obligations can take their toll. For years, New Yorkers have fled to the East End of Long Island, whose peaceful North Fork has quietly drawn those seeking a laid-back, low-key lifestyle and the rustic splendor of its villages, bays, farms, vineyards, and pastoral wooded landscape.
In North Fork Living, Harry Haralambou, who has lived there for twenty years, lovingly captures the character of the region in his own words and spectacular images. From Peconic and Riverhead to Orient and Greenport, the unique integrity of each town is revealed in its architecture and sights. Accompanied by spectacular photographs, North Fork Living reveals the lovely essence and irresistible charm of this gorgeous place in all seasons of the year. A complete listing of vineyards and wineries is included.
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Art and Reporting on the North Fork June 19, 2007
Conrad J. Obregon (New York, NY USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Somehow it's hard not to like a book where the photograph facing the title page shows your mailbox and the road leading onto your property (although at a distance, I confess). I expect that most residents of the North Fork of Long Island will feel the same way about this book.
This is a book of iconic photographs of the northeast end of Long Island, New York, bounded on the north by Long Island Sound and the south by Peconic Bay. Each of the photographs is bound to stir the hearts of the people, both full-timers and weekenders, who believe that they have found a hidden and enchanted garden just two hour's drive from Manhattan. Here are lovely color pictures of this still rural area, showing farms in Riverhead and oyster fields in Orient, as well as the small towns strung out along Route 25 from one end of the North Fork to the other.
Books like this are usually accompanied by a narrative, and here Haralambou waxes enthusiastic about the joys of the place, including even the adventure of Saturday morning tag sales. (Somehow he avoids mentioning the run-down sections of Riverhead or the deer that seem to attack every garden on the Fork, except, perhaps, the author's.) Little tidbits about the Fork are sprinkled throughout the pages, including the relationship between David Rothman of Southold and Einstein.
I suspect that some of the full-timers may be upset that the author has shown us the wonders of winter on the North Fork. I suspect that most weekenders wipe the North Fork from their mind on Labor Day, or certainly after the Columbus Day weekend. Now those weekenders will have a chance to consider how inviting the place looks under a blanket of white.
The book made me consider a photographic dichotomy between art and reporting. Haralambou's pictures, while striking and beautiful, seem mostly concerned with content and telling a story that arises from the content of the picture rather than being directed by the form. The best way to understand what I mean by this is to compare this book with another recent book of photographs of the North Fork, "Between Sea and Sky" by Jake Rajs Between Sea and Sky: Landscapes of Long Island's North Fork. In many of Rajs' works, the pictures seem to have lives of their own, while in this work most pictures derive their force from the viewer's vision of the place. For those who love the place "North Fork Living" may well prove more satisfying than some almost-mystical vision. I'm not so certain how those who have no experience of the North Fork will feel, but it may well be that perusing this book will create a sense of chauvinism for a place they've never been.
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