William Carter

Survey of abandoned towns, mostly mining towns, in the West. Well illustrated.

Ghost Towns of the West

An Epic Story of the World War

The Gates of Janus

Jeffrey Lange

"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the first line of Proust scholars in the country." —Roger Shattuck,Boston University The Proustian Quest is the first full-length study that explores the influence of social change on Proust's vision. In Remembrance of Things Past, Proust describes how the machines of transportation and communication transformed fashion, social mores, time-space perception, and the understanding of the laws of nature. Concentrating on the motif of speed, Carter establishes the centrality of the modern world to the novel's main themes and produces a far- reaching synthesis that demonstrates the work's profound structural unity.

The Proustian Quest

Carter tells the story of the hall itself, the personalities who ran it, and above all, the music and musicians of New Orleans.

Music from the Heart

Preservation Hall

Placida, the Christian Martyr. Sacred cantata. Words by M. Deigh

Examines the life of Billy Carter and how he dealt with his instant celebrity and being stereotyped as a "southern redneck"

A Journey Through the Shadows

Billy Carter

The Family Hell Growing Up and What It Is Today

Watch any mother kneeling beside her toddler, pointing and explaining what they are looking at. Our urge to see, and to connect, starts there. William Carter This book is both an autobiography of William Carter and a study of people. Carters photographs, beginning in 1960, take the viewer on his travels throughout the world, from home to New York and Kurdistan, from Dublin to Gaza. Whether working as a photojournalist or purely for himself, Carter focuses on the gestures and expressions of people (sometimes charming, sometimes unsettling), and on streets and landscapes that often long for human presence. The subtitle Photographs from Five Decades might seem misleading as it implies a typical photobook where the sequence of images is primary. For Carter, however, it is the interplay between his photographs and writings that allows him to see into himself and his subjects: indeed he calls himself a photographer-writer. In Carters words, his work aims to capture the hidden implications, eye-blink compositions, odd ironies and happy accidents of the world. William Carter, born in 1934 in Los Angeles, is a photographer, writer and part-time jazz musician. He has exhibited and published widely, and his work is held in public and private collections in the USA and Europe. Combining his photographic and written work is Carters preferred approach to bookmaking, as seen in such publications as Ghost Towns of the West (1971) and Preservation Hall (1996).

William Carter

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