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...TIME OF GODS, photographs by Roloff Beny, notes by John Lindsay Opie (272 pp.; Viking; $20). A picture essay that lives up to its considerable pretension. Photographer Beny, a 37-year-old Canadian, has fitted brooding, atmospheric studies of Greece - the stones, the sea, the sky-to a running series of quotations from Chapman's 17th century translation of the Odyssey. The result is arty, but it is also remarkably successful...
...ENGLAND IMAGE, text and photographs by Samuel Chamberlain (192 pp.; Hastings House; $ 12.95). This is for spiritual New Englanders, the exiled yearners who can look at a plain wooden barn in a rocky Vermont field and see the Parthenon. It is customary to photograph New England in color (all those leaves), but the author's choice is black and white, and it is the better, sterner...
COLUMBUS IN THE NEW WORLD, text and photographs by Bradley Smith (191 pp.; Doubleday; $15). As befits its subject, this one is less impressionistic than Photographer Beny's book on the Odyssey, but it is equally successful. The photographs are mostly in color, and they show the Caribbean as Columbus must have seen...
VENICE, THE MASQUE OF ITALY, by Marcel Brlon (223 pp.; Crown; $10). It takes impressive hubris to tackle Venice; Ruskin, after, all, got there first, and almost every writer with the price of a ticket has followed him. Author Brion attempts not only a gloss of Venice's history, but also a presentation of the glittering array of its art, and has come respectably close to achieving his goal...
HOMES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, by Cranston Jones (232 pp.; McGraw-Hill; $13.95). Brief profiles of the homely side of each President, with drawings and photographs of the cabins, houses and mansions they lived in that amount to an informal but revealing survey of the U.S.'s underdocumented and undervalued domestic architecture...