Outhouses: A Photographic Survey Book

To muster the smart brigade of one hundred outhouses exhibited in this book, eight dedicated photographers headed by Londie Padelsky have fanned out over the boggy backways of our nation and rallied into service stalwart sentinels of every style and state of repair. Each redolent image in Outhouses: Images and Contemplations is ornamented by an aid to contemplation in words—whether seasoned aphorism (Cicero), subtle arrière-pensée (La Fontaine), inverted innuendo (Swift), cutting couplet (Pope), or purgative panegyric (Roethke)—all tastefully selected to gratify the large philosophico-poetic appetites that are awakened by the Littlest House on the Prairie.