Triptychs

Triptychs
Author: Milton Rogovin
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 141
Release: 1994
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780393035889

"In the early 1970s, Milton Rogovin set out to document the neighborhood near his house. He made a series of portraits of working-class people in Buffalo's Lower West Side. Then he returned to photograph the same people in the early 1980s and again in the 1990s. The result is this remarkable and moving portrait of time and place in America. Here are fifty of an acclaimed photographer's engaging Triptychs - a visual chronicle of change, aging, endurance, and finally survival. As Robert Coles writes in his foreword, "These photographs constitute a major contribution to the American documentary tradition. They represent the insistence of one careful, gifted, attentive photographer upon seeing through, as it were, his self-assigned job of seeing."" "Here we see working people who, like most Americans, find partners, have children and grandchildren, sometimes separate, and sometimes die early. Some age considerably in the ten years between photographs, others almost not at all. Some lose children, change partners and houses, and some visibly change lifestyles. What remains constant is the passing of time and its effects upon his subjects, so evident in Rogovin's work. These are among the themes observed and discussed in Stephen Jay Gould's illuminating introduction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Dublin Revisited

Dublin Revisited
Author: Lee Signor
Publisher: Adirondack Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-04-05
Genre: Historic districts
ISBN: 9780966407266

The West Side was Saratoga Springs' (New York) prime residential location long before the East Side, Union Avenue, and North Broadway were developed. Originally, "Dublin" was named for the Irish immigrants who came in the 1850's to work on the railroads and in the hotels. Italians, and African Americans followed the Irish immigrants, but the West Side's original name of Dublin has remained to this day. All of the information contained in this book was gleaned from oral interviews with people who lived on the West Side. Little audio or video taped documentation existed about life in this unique neighborhood. This book captures the flavor and feeling of this special place, past and present, and as you read these stories you will be able to realize the uniqueness of this "Dublin" neighborhood.

The Great Wall Revisited

The Great Wall Revisited
Author: William Lindesay
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780674031494

"William Lindsey has spent three years travelling 35,000 km across North China, reconstructing vintage photographs - the earliest dating from 1871 - by retaking new images from the same viewpoints"-- OhioLink.

The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited

The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited
Author: Joyce Mendelsohn
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231519434

The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with wealth and gentrification changing the character of the neighborhood. Chronicling these developments, along with the hidden gems that still speak of a vibrant immigrant identity, Joyce Mendelsohn provides a complete guide to the Lower East Side of then and now. After an extensive history that stretches back to Manhattan's first settlers, Mendelsohn offers 5 self-guided walking tours, including a new passage through the Bowery, that take the reader to more than 150 sites and highlight the dynamics of a community of contrasts: aged tenements nestled among luxury apartment towers abut historic churches and synagogues. With updated and revised maps, historical data, and an entirely new community to explore, Mendelsohn writes a brand-new chapter in an old New York story.

Bethlehem Revisited

Bethlehem Revisited
Author: William G. Weiner Jr and Karen M. Samuels
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467122394

Due in part to the Lehigh Canal and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, Bethlehem evolved from a tranquil town to a modern industrial city. Built in 1829, the Lehigh Canal passed by the center of Bethlehem. With it brought a steady stream of outsiders who shaped and changed the community. The Lehigh Valley Railroad was established in South Bethlehem in the 1850s, turning the city into a manufacturing center with such new industries as Lehigh Zinc and Bethlehem Steel as well as silk mills. Bethlehem Revisited captures a city in transition, at a time when its streets could barely accommodate the influx of horses, trolleys, automobiles, and pedestrians. Bursting at its seams with people, businesses, and residences, Bethlehem comes alive through this collection of extraordinary postcards.

The Delinquent Child and the Home ...

The Delinquent Child and the Home ...
Author: Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 1916
Genre: Child welfare
ISBN:

Ricerca sul lavoro del Tribunale per i minori mirata a favorire una maggiore comprensione dei bisogni dei bambini coinvolti in procedimenti giudiziari partendo da un'analisi delle condizioni sociali in cui esso vivono e che potrebbero favorire il loro comportamento deviante. Dopo una breve illustrazione dei diversi procedimenti giuridici previsti per i minori nell'ordinamento giuridico statunitense, il testo presenta in modo dettagliato le diverse condizioni socio-economiche in cui il minore potrebbe trovarsi a vivere (immigrazione, povertà, famiglia numerosa, famiglia con altri membri delinquenti) e per ognuna di esse è data una descrizione dei fattori che potrebbero spingere il minore, anche in modo inconsapevole, a commettere reati. Concludono l'opera sei appendici contenenti i dati statistici e finali di diverse ricerche svolte sull'argomento nella città di Chicago nei primi anni del Novecento.

Karl Bodmer's America Revisited

Karl Bodmer's America Revisited
Author:
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-07-05
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0806189126

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied—a German naturalist—and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors—designed to illustrate Maximilian’s journals—now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer’s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip up the Missouri River. To discover how the areas Bodmer depicted have changed over time, photographer Robert M. Lindholm and anthropologist W. Raymond Wood made several trips over a period of years, from 1985 to 2002, to locate and record the same sites—all the way from Boston Harbor, where Maximilian and Bodmer began their journey, to Fort McKenzie, in modern-day western Montana. Pairing sixty-seven Bodmer works side by side with Lindholm’s photographs of the same sites, this volume uses the comparison of old and new images to reveal alterations through time—and the encroachment of a built environment—across diverse landscapes. Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited is at once a tribute to the artistic achievements of a premier landscape artist and a photographer who followed in his footsteps, and a valuable record of America’s ever-changing environment.

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein
Author: Paul Laird
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317430441

Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.