Author: Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868287844
Category : Atlantic City (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagination and reality of the two classic gambling centers in the USA: Las Vegas and Atlantic City
Jay Wolke
Author: Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
ISBN: 9783868287844
Category : Atlantic City (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Imagination and reality of the two classic gambling centers in the USA: Las Vegas and Atlantic City
American Photo
Author: Along the Divide
Author: Jay WolkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dan Ryan Expressway (Chicago, Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Cutting across Chicago's South Side in a broad swath of concrete, steel, and overpasses, the Dan Ryan Expressway is one of America's busiest, and perhaps most chaotic highways. Yet underneath the cacophony of its ten lanes lies an intriguing world of urban ecology and human networks. In The Dan Ryan Expressway, artist and photographer Jay Wolke unearths an ecosystem unto itself that weaves human and industrial elements into an essential feature of Chicago's identity. Between 1981 and 1985, Wolke shot thousands of photographs on and along the Dan Ryan during the day and night, traveling up and down the expressway in an effort to accurately capture it. In the twenty years since the photographs were taken, Wolke has organized his pictures into a complex and fascinating portrait of this iconic highway, which he characterizes as an "arterial organism" with its own "cycles and flows, causes and effects." The book is a dynamic narrative that explores the Dan Ryan's enormous influence over the people who drive on it, the neighborhoods lined alongside it, and the industrial environs it weaves through. As Chicago transportation officials prepare to launch a massive renovation of the Dan Ryan Expressway, Wolke here presents a historical chronicle of the development of the Dan Ryan and its rapid integration into Chicago's urban life. His photographs create an arresting visual representation of the expressway that provides an important window into the structure of Chicago's urban landscape and culture. The Dan Ryan Expressway ultimately examines where the highway fits within the trope of the American road and explores how it became "a massive expression of the urban lexicon." "As chilling as Blade Runner--unfortunately this is not a dytopian vision set in a distant, fictional future--this is Chicago, and this is America now. The automobile has utterly changed the landscape and our lives--Jay Wolke has found a powerful way to record this historic transformation in this unique, important photographic achievement."--Joel Sternfeld
Architecture of Resignation
Author: Jay WolkePublisher: Center for Amer Places Incorporated
ISBN: 9781935195139
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
From 2000 to 2007, Jay Wolke photographed in the south of Italy to capture the complexity of a region that is colloquially known as Il mezzogiorno. What he found in this historic and often troubled landscape was an elaborate set of physical, social, and political forces manifested in an extraordinary tapestry of visual information. Both referential and suggestive, Wolke's pictures reveal the marks of a long line of invaders, conquerors, and occupiers from the Greeks to the Spanish to the Camorra. Architectural and structural adaptations and “resignations” are evident in every scene and serve as the photographer's focus. Although the landscape is marred by layers of dysfunction and greed, we can't help but view it through the lens of the timeless belief in the bel paese—the beautiful country.
Forgotten Chicago
Author: John PaulettPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738532790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A pictorial tour of many of Chicago's famed architectural wonders includes the old Northwestern Train station, the Coliseum, the Chicago Stadium, old Comiskey Park, Soldier Field, and some of Chicago's most famous diners.
The National Road
Author: Karl B. RaitzPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).
Echoes of a Queer Messianic
Author: Richard O. BlockPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438469551
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today. Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his findings to recent texts such as A Lovers Discourse and Brokeback Mountain. He offers novel readings of well-known texts by Shelley, Kleist, and Goethe, arguing that this early writing serves as a creative font for much of the subsequent work in sexology. These texts also provide echoes of a kind of love overlooked or suppressed in favor of a politics of appeasement or one intended to make queers model citizens. This book charts the unexplored possibilities for queer love in an attempt to map a future for gay politics in the age of homonormativity. Compelling and highly original, this book offers a major intervention into queer theory, while at the same time performing stunning feats of literary and film criticism. This is a work of first-rate intelligence, style, and critical and theoretical precision. John David Rhodes, University of Cambridge
American Photo
Inland Architect
Author: What Einstein Didn't Know
Author: Robert L. WolkePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486492893
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Presents scientific answers to a series of miscellaneous questions, covering such topics as "Why are bubbles round," "Why are the Earth, Sun, and Moon all spinning," and "How you can tell the temperature by listening to a cricket."