Wedding

The extraordinary photographs in this book were compiled by Barbara Norfleet in the course of an exhaustive search through the negative files of photographic studios all over America. She examined millions of negatives over a period of several years, selecting the best photographs for a major exhibition. The "Wedding" exhibition opened in 1976 at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, where it was an immediate success. Attendace was heavy, and the Harvard Crimson reported: "Wedding makes not only artistic statements, but social ones as well." The following year, the photographs moved to New York's International Center for Photography. The Christian Science Monitor reported that it was one of the most popular exhibitions in the history of the ICP, and in its review of the show, said: "The photographs in this show astonish with their ability to project the universal emotion behind the institutional one." Now for the first time this superb collection of photographs is available in book form, providing a permanent record of the exhibition for all those who were fortunate enough to witness it, and a delightful discovery for those experiencing these photographs forthe first time. --- for book's dustjacket