Books by Xiomaro

Weir Farm National Historic Site is Connecticut’s first national park and the only one in America dedicated to painting. No other book chronicles the property’s rescue from residential development to its establishment as a park. The story is told through the only artistic photographic collection documenting Weir Farm National Historic Site, most of which has never been published before. Weir Farm was the home of Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leading innovator of American Impressionism. The farm’s landscape inspired countless masterpieces created by Weir, his famous painter-friends, two subsequent generations of artist-owners, and contemporary artists who continue to create at the park. In 2020, this iconic site was featured on the US quarter.

Xiomáro is a nationally recognized artist, curator, teacher, writer, and speaker from New York, whose fine art photography is featured in this book. His work has been covered by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, CBS Eyewitness News, and Fine Art Connoisseur. Venues such as Harvard University, the Long Island Museum, the National Park Service Northeast Regional Office, and congressional offices have exhibited his photography. Xiomáro is the visiting artist at Weir Farm, which has provided additional images for this book from its archives.

This is a physical book that gets mailed to you and not a downloadable electronic book.

When you enter the Ford mansion, George Washington’s winter headquarters during the 1779-1780 winter encampment, you tend to be focused, perhaps over-awed, by the residual presence of George Washington, Martha Washington, or Alexander Hamilton.

Yet just below the surface of the Revolutionary War story is the century-long story of a family home. Built by the wealthy and influential Ford family of Morris County in the early 1770s, the house sheltered the Fords through 100 years of personal, social, political, and economical upheaval.

The photographs in this booklet challenge us to move beyond our perceived expectations of the house and let it speak to us without a dialog provided. The Ford mansion is as much our home as it was the Fords because it invites us to remember our shared life experiences with people of the past and the world they inhabited. And it is at that intersection we connect with the past, seamlessly.

The images uniquely convey the duality of the home. “The domestic aspects are easily lost in the presence of Washington, but Xio has managed to capture the mansion’s essence as a home,” explains Jude M. Pfister, author of the text.

This is a physical book that gets mailed to you and not a downloadable electronic book.

Using lots of illustrations and examples, this booklet will walk you step-by-step through the process of applying three important techniques: creative cropping, dodging and burning, and artistic black and white photo conversion.

Tastefully enhance your images regardless of whether they were taken with an Android or iPhone. The booklet is small enough to carry in your bag. Read and learn at your own pace and while you are on the go.

This is a physical book that gets mailed to you and not a downloadable electronic book.