Hazlegrove, Cary 1960(?)–

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Hazlegrove, Cary 1960(?)–

PERSONAL: Born c. 1960; married Andy Bullington (a guitarist); children: Virginia Page. Education: Hollins University, graduated, 1978.

ADDRESSES: Home—Nantucket Island, MA. Office—Cary Hazlegrove Photography, P.O. Box 442, Nantucket, MA 02554-0442. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Photographer.

MEMBER: Nantucket Preservation Trust (member of board).

WRITINGS:

(And photographer) Nantucket: Seasons on the Island, introduction by David Halberstam, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 1995.

(And photographer) Nantucket: The Quiet Season, foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 2005.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Bill Gleeson, Weekends for Two in the New England: Fifty Romantic Getaways, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 1996.

Bill Gleeson, Weekends for Two in the Southwest: Fifty Romantic Getaways, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 1997.

Bill Gleeson, Weekends for Two in the Mid-Atlantic States: Fifty Romantic Getaways, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA), 1998.

Melissa Clark and Samara Farbar Mormar, The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook: Menus and Recipes from the Faraway Isle, Random House (New York, NY), 2001.

Photography published in newspapers and periodicals, including New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Condé Nast Traveler, House and Garden, Food and Wine, Southern Accents, and Parade.

SIDELIGHTS: Photographer Cary Hazlegrove first arrived on Nantucket Island not long after graduating from Virginia's Hollins University in 1978, and immediately began her life-long love affair with the region. "I fell in love with the island the second my feet hit the ground," she shared in a profile for the Nantucket Preservation Trust. In 1980 she began producing slide shows of her photographs, an annual tradition that endured for twenty-three years. Several compilations of Hazlegrove's works have been published in book form, including Nantucket: Seasons on the Island, The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook: Menus and Recipes from the Faraway Isle, and Nantucket: The Quiet Season.

The photographs in Nantucket: Seasons on the Island depict the popular tourist destination during its peak travel seasons in addition to its blustery winters. Booklist reviewer Gilbert Taylor commented, "These pretty colorplates celebrate … sandy, windswept Nantucket. Hazlegrove focused on Nantucket from a native's perspective in Nantucket: The Quiet Season, which includes quotes from island inhabitants in addition to photos taken during the off-season. Alison Hop-kins wrote in a review for Library Journal, "Hazlegrove's love and understanding of the area shine throughout this well-planned book, which will be savored by many." Hazlegrove also contributed photographs to Melissa Clark and Samara Farbar Mormar's The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook, which Library Journal reviewer Tom Cooper called "as much travel book as it is cookbook. Hazlegrove's pictures dwell equally on Nantucket Island scenery as on the food presented."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 1, 1995, Gilbert Taylor, review of Nantucket: Seasons on the Island, p. 1374.

Library Journal, March 15, 2001, Tom Cooper, review of The Nantucket Restaurants Cookbook: Menus and Recipes from the Faraway Isle, p. 101; March 1, 2005, Alison Hopkins, review of Nantucket: The Quiet Season, p. 102.