Above Washington D.C.

by Robert W. Cameron

Book Overview

Above Washington. The Nation's capitol is here celebrated with the eye of history and a elan of today's headlines Never before have America's monuments been so dramatically and lovingly displayed, as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918684080
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Cameron Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 3.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.8" x 14.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting Perspective

This book provides a unique perspective to a great city. Some similar "picture books" just provide photos of major buildings or important places but it's hard to determine how they all tie together. With this book you can clearly see how the pieces come together. It also does a nice job of showing Washington's beautiful open and green spaces - which is unique among major American cities. Adding a few historical photos is a nice touch. I end up looking through these pictures on a regular basis.

Dazzling D.C.

I have always had a major appreciation of Robert Carmeron's work and this is one of his best. Granted it's hard to make Washington look bad, it's is so wonderfully laid out, but in this book she never looked better. Though the pictures are from the early 80's, most of the momuments are present and the city is timeless anyway. Mr. Carmeron is such a talent and the angles he gets are just amazing. If you love Washington, or just like great photography quite frankly, you will love this book.

Ordinary Joes Opinion

I sell books on Amamzon and I was listing this book and double checking it's conditon when I became drawn into the book.This is an excellent book for the history buff,school library,or for anyone who has never been to Washingtton CD.The before and after pictures are especially interesting.If you are planing a trip to the capitol this would be a good book to read and reread first. Then you could compare the views when you return .This would give you an excellent "feel" for the changing "life" of the capitol.

The best of its kind

Washington, DC is an unique capital city and Robert Cameron shares his birdeye's view with us in this marvelous volume. For residents and vistors alike, this is extraordinary record of the city, particularly the juxtaposition of old and contemporary photographs. Others try to emulate Cameron in this genre, but he is the master who makes it look easy.