Colorado 1870-2000 II (Hardcover)

~ John Fielder (Author), (Photographer), Gillian Klucas (Author)
Key Phrases: acid mine drainage, Rio Grande, Colorado Springs, Colorado River (more...)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 156 pages
• Publisher: Westcliffe Publishers (September 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565795660
• ISBN-13: 978-1565795662
• Product Dimensions: 14.3 x 10.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #220,495 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Great Anticipation, Disappointing Results, August 10, 2007

By	Siward - See all my reviews

When I originally saw this book, I was highly interested because I find Colorado to be a beautiful state and photographic history to be a fascinating topic. Unfortunately, many of the retakes are uninteresting (as stated in another review) and are technically lacking (poor choice in time of day, cloud cover, or just flat out blown highlights (I counted eight photographs with blown highlights on a cursory glance through the book)).

On the plus side, the historical images are worth examining -- simply seeing photographs over 130 years old is intriguing, and the descriptions accompanying these photographs give you a sense of just how pioneering a lot of this work was.

I don't own Colorado I, I have a hard time imagining that it would be as disappointing as Colorado II. The historical photographs are beyond reproach, but I can't shake the feeling that Fielder barely gave any compositional consideration to the modern photographs.

5.0 out of 5 stars Then and now...., October 26, 2009

By	Bakpackr "Bakpackr" (South) - See all my reviews

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The author did a marvelous job of taking the the old 1870 photos and finding the exact spot on which to take the current ones. The fun part is seeing how much things remain the same over time. This is a great coffee-table book that folks will always enjoy perusing.

2.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the Media Hype, October 21, 2005

By	Sandra Jordan "Sandy" (Grand Junction, Colorado) - See all my reviews

As a Colorado history buff, I'm a little annoyed at all the hype the media has given the Fielder-Jackson project. The fact of the matter is Fielder's project is in no way original or ground-breaking. Several other photographers have quietly done similar projects over the years. The first that I know of to publish a then-and-now book on Colorado was Robert L. Brown, who published a series of such books in the 1960s. The first person to start work on a then-and-now book in modern times was Grant Collier, who reshot the images of his great-great grandfather, Joseph Collier. Joshua Dinar has also done a book called "Denver: Then & Now" and there have been a number of other regional Colorado books with a similar theme done over the years. Of these books, "Colorado: Yesterday & Today" by Grant Collier is, in my opinion, undoubtedly the best. It is significantly more interesting because he reshot the images of his great-great grandfather. Collier also did the best job of finding the exact spots where the historic photos were taken and he provided a lot more historical text and insight than any of the other modern books. The next best modern book is probably Fielder's "Colorado 1870-2000," in part because of the impressive size of the book. After this, I would put "Denver: Then & Now," followed by "Colorado: 1870-2000 II". I rank this book last because it consists only of the rejects from his first book. So while the book was released in 2005, the modern photos in it were taken back in 1998. The photos in this book were rejected from the first book for a reason. They are not as historically interesting as those in the first book and Fielder didn't do a great job of precisely re-shooting the images. So unless you own all of the other books listed above, I don't see any reason to buy this book. I do also recommend Robert L. Brown's books, but since the "modern" photos in his books were taken in the 1960s, they are obviously a little outdated. But the books provide interesting insight into two past time-periods, and they also provide a lot of historical text on each of the towns in the book.