In over 180 vivid color photos, this beautiful book provides a photographic exploration of the lifestyles and landscape of Long Island's famed East End. This collection, a work of art and a documentary, epitomizes the diversity and eclectic nature of this historic locale. The varied methods of capture - film or digital, time-lapse or infrared - produce imagery that evokes a sense of nostalgia and provides a greater understanding of the Hamptons as a whole. The hamlets and villages depicted include Amagansett, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, East Marion, Greenport, Montauk, Napeague, Noyack, The Quogues, Sag Harbor, Sagaponack, Shelter Island, Southampton, Springs, Water Mill, and Westhampton. The revered past and unique history of the Hamptons carries through to the present-day East End. Rich with art and culture, still picturesque and diverse, the Hamptons are ever changing and evolving. Looking ahead, this book will become a resource of historical record, as it chronicles the contemporary community in a beautiful and truthful way.

People have always found respite at the beach. The sun, sand, and surf are an alluring cure for cabin fever, an activity as much as an escape. Using pinhole photography, art photographer Phillip Lehans captured five empty East Hampton beaches while people were isolating during the pandemic. His medium -- slow, old-school, and distant -- proved fitting for the times, and his panoramic images evoke the serenity we dream of at the beach. Using a wooden camera with a manual shutter, his prolonged exposures create an ethereal atmosphere, awash in pastels and reminiscent of watercolour paintings. Every subtlety of nature is recorded: a brisk wind pushes clouds across the sky, creating smooth streaks of white and pastel, while the tides render the ocean in creamy tranquillity. In these infinite variations we are reminded of the cycles of nature, the course of time, and the optimism of tomorrow.