The Flower Cottages E-Book Edition

E-book edition of "The Flower Cottages" - individual portraits of each of the historic cottages.

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Provincetown, MA – April 11, 2018 – Award winning fine art photographer Edward M. Fielding has released a new series of photographs of the iconic “Flower Cottages” which line the beach on Route 6A just outside of Provincetown.  The iconic Day’s Cottages of North Truro have hosted weekly summer rental vacationers since the 1930s and the row of small cottages, neatly lined up between the roadway and shore have inspired generations of artists.  Twenty-two identical cottages receive a documentary style "portrait" in Fielding’s The Flower Cottages series of fine art photographs in which the viewer is invited to examine for differences between these seemingly identical cottages.

The book includes all of the cottages that make up Day's Cottages including the last one across the road which is a converted gas station that had the same dimensions of the original beachside cottages.  This small artbook harkens back to Ed Ruscha’s 1960s small books “23 Gas Stations” and “Various Small Fires and Milk”.

The individual cottage portraits were also influenced by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the New Topographics or human-alter landscape movements.  

The Flower Cottages are also known as Day’s Cottages which were offered as weekly rentals for 87 years until recently they were converted into condos but protected by local regulations to remain summer cottages.  

Edward M. Fielding’s “The Flower Cottages of Cape Cod” series is also available as individual fine art prints.  Prints of the Flower Cottages series can be purchase at: https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/collections/the+flower+cottages+of+cape+cod

 About the Artist

Edward M. Fielding lives in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire on the banks of Anderson Pond in Grantham and photographs in his studio, the New England region and beyond.  His work is shown in galleries and appears on book covers around the world. http://www.edwardfielding.com