Richard L Sexton

Christmas at Oak Alley Plantation

Compass American Guides New Orleans

New Orleans

New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence

Parallel Utopias: The Quest for Community

In the Victorian Style

Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana's River Road

Gardens of New Orleans : Exquisite Excess

In the Victorian Style

San Francisco is famous for its distinctive and well-preserved Victorian architecture. Victorianarchitectural historian and longtime SF resident Randolph Delehanty and photographer RichardSexton provide a pictorial and historical overview of this timeless look. In the Victorian Styletraces the devel...

Capturing Oak Alley

Master photographers Robert S. Brantley, Philip Gould and Richard Sexton have indeed captured unforgettable portraits of one of our nation's most cherished historic treasures. Capturing Oak Alley parallels their masterpieces with poignant images from the past, as well as pertinent testimony by well ...

The Cottage Book

Small space? No problem - big style on a small scale awaits at every turn in The Cottage Book. Islands of pastoral bliss nestled in the urban landscape, the cottages of the San Francisco Bay Area have an aesthetic all their own, but one that works well just about anywhere. Richard Sexton's classic b...

Rosemary Beach

A visual narrative of this groundbreaking New Urbanism development in the Florida Panhandle. Designed by planning pioneers Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Rosemary Beach is a decidedly different community. Renowned photographer Richard Sexton became an advocate of Rosemary Beach, finding i...

Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast

Until recent catastrophic events, little attention was paid to the landscape and ecology of the American Gulf Coast. Acclaimed photographer Richard Sexton's evocative black-and-white images capture this often-overlooked terrainthrowing into haunting relief the marshes, forests, and bayous from the M...

New Roads and Old Rivers: Louisiana's Historic Pointe Coupee Parish

Includes 200 color photos and 5 mapsNew Roads and Old Rivers captures the natural and cultural vitality of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, as seen in the stunning photographs of Richard Sexton, with text by Randy Harelson and Brian Costello. Pointe Coupee is one of the oldest settlements in the Mis...

New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence

The lush, seductive, Old World elegance of New Orleans is gloriously revealed in this photographic tribute to the "Venice of North America." Richard Sexton's photographs capture balcony-lined streets, French-style parks, Caribbean-inspired gardens, and ornate public buildings, and take us inside som...

Vestiges of Grandeur: Plantations of Louisiana's River Road

In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, author and photographer Richard Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions—some inhabited, many now long abandoned—of Louisiana's River Road. Bordering the Mississippi, these antebellum landm...