Author tells Clifton's story with a camera

CLIFTON -- For an English major with no formal art training, Sandra Giordano is doing well for herself in the world of photography.

Giordano, 38, shot the photographs for her new book, "Clifton: Then and Now," the latest in a series on city history.

The book features historical photographs of Clifton buildings and parks a century ago compared side by side with their present-day counterparts.

In "Then and Now" Giordano details some of the ornate architecture of Clifton's downtown buildings.

"When you live here all your life, you walk past these buildings on Main Street and don't notice them," she said.

Released last week, the book is the third volume about Clifton in Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series (those sepia-toned paperbacks stacked in the history section of Barnes & Noble).


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