Author: Charles Schmucker ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grain elevators
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Grain Elevators of North America
Author: Charles Schmucker ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grain elevators
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Measure of Emptiness
Author: Frank GohlkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is", said Gertude Stein. From the Midway area of Minneapolis to the prairie grasslands of Kansas, the American landscape is characterized by this spaciousness--and by the presence of windowless, rumbling, enormous grain elevators, rising above the steeples of churches to announce the presence of a town and to explain, in great measure, the function of its inhabitants. Why did their builders choose that particular form to fulfill a practical necessity? And how does the experience of great emptiness shape what people think, feel, and do? Frank Gohlke, one of America's foremost photographers of landscape, has pondered and documented the relationship between these enormous structures and the emptiness of the surrounding landscape for the past two decades. The result is this evocative sequence of images, beginning with Gohlke's earliest formal studies of structural fragments and their mechanisms, and gradually expanding to depict the grain elevator as a part of the landscape. His camera eventually retreats so far that the grain elevator disappears in the horizon, and only the landscape--the "space where nobody is"--is visible. Introducing the photographs is a personal essay by Gohlke on the relationship between people and their space, and the ways in which that relationship actually creates a landscape. A concluding historical essay by John C. Hudson details the development and function of the grain elevator and its geographical and economic role in American life.
American Colossus: The Grain Elevator, 1843 to 1943
Author: William J. BrownPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578012618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The first full-length history of the American grain elevator, from 1843 to 1943. Eight black and white illustrations, appendix, index, bibliography.
Grain Elevators of North America
Author: Charles Samuel ClarkPublisher:
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Category : Grain and feed journals consolidated
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grain Elevators of North American
Author: Grain and feed journals consolidatedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
North American Grain Elevators
Author: BrownTrout Publishers, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780763142230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Grain Elevators of North America
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grain elevators
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
... illustrating and describing the latest and best in construction, arrangement and equipment of facilities for the mechanical handling, cleaning and storing of grain, field seeds and feeds in bulk recommended by the Progressive Designers and Builders of North America during the quarter century 1917-1942.
Understanding an American Building Type
Author: Lisa MaharThe American Grain Elevator
Author: Linda LairdPublisher:
ISBN: 9780984759101
Category : Grain elevators
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Grain Elevators
Author: Lisa Mahar-KeplingerPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9781878271358
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
In this astonishing collection of photographs and drawings, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger documents on of the most American of building types: the grain elevator, revealing them as symbols of the American collective unconscious. Winner of an AIA Book Award, Grain Elevators is a companion volume to Wood Burners.