Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Subtitle: a photographic portrait
By: photographs by Robert C. Lautman ; introduction by David McCullough ; foreword by Daniel P. Jordan ; anthology of writings selected by Ann M. Lucas and Rebecca L. Bowman.
Contributors: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Publisher: Monacelli Press in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- Pictorial works; Monticello (Va.) -- Pictorial works
Description: Robert C. Lautman used a mid-nineteenth-century process to capture evocative images of Monticello and its grounds as Jefferson and his contemporaries might have known them. Working with an 8 x 10 camera and using only natural light, Lautman created views that were printed with the platinum-palladium process on hand-coated paper. The resulting images are complemented by an insightful selection of writings by Jefferson and others on the house, its appurtenances, and the patterns of daily life there.

The photographs and quotations magnificently re-create the unique atmosphere of Monticello.