Viewing Hours
There's something about the abandoned storefronts, vintage motels, and forgotten restaurants of the 1950s and 60s that evokes a mid-century nostalgia, even for those of us who weren't alive in those years. Viewing Hours brings together the photography of Ben Geier, who has spent the last decade traveling the United States to capture the images of these once vibrant, and now abandoned treasures.Organized in sections, including Signs, Theatres, Restaurants, Motels, Roadside, and Storefronts, and featuring an introduction by the photographer, Viewing Hours features over 150 color images from 15 states, including Arizona, California, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. Evoking a sense of nostalgia and solitude, Geier's work highlights the modernist architecture, minimalist design, and muted color palette of the mid-century.
Basketball - The Ultimate Book
Sports stars, titles, lifestyle and legends: Everything a basketball coffee table book needs!Immerse yourself in the captivating world of basketball with our comprehensive coffee table book "Basketball - The Ultimate Book" by Peter Feierabend and Torben Rosenbohm. This rich coffee table book takes you on an exciting journey through the history of one of the world's most popular sports and allows you to experience the energy and lifestyle of basketball up close. From NBA icons like Michael Jordan and Dirk Nowitzki to contemporary stars like LeBron James, we pay tribute to the most outstanding talents and teams that have shaped this iconic global sport.Our Coffee Table Book offers you a visual feast, showcasing stunning shots of spectacular dunks, legendary arenas and iconic basketball locations. Discover the evolution of basketball from the NBA to Europe and the successes of German players in the world's most prestigious league. The illustrated book is rich in stories about the origins of the game, cultural phenomena such as the basketball cappy and tattoos.The sport has not only produced numerous talented players, but has also had an impressive influence on various cultures and global lifestyles. This is particularly evident in the international presence of basketball superstars such as Michael Jordan and LeBron James, who have not only impressed with their sporting prowess but have also been recognized as cultural icons around the world.Written by respected authors Peter Feierabend and Torben Rosenbohm, this illustrated book combines profound knowledge with aesthetic beauty. It is an absolute must-have for every fan of the sport and a symbol of the passion and dedication to basketball. Become part of the basketball community and let yourself be inspired by the fascination of this sport. Make "Basketball - The Ultimate Book" a highlight in your book collection and experience the exciting world of ball sports that fascinates millions of people. With our coffee table book, you can celebrate the lifestyle of basketball on your own bookshelf.
Seeing Wild
"Seeing Wild" beckons readers into a captivating realm of vibrant wildlife and serene landscapes, each page a window to the mesmerizing beauty of the natural world. Through a rich tapestry of full-color images and heartfelt narratives, this book transcends mere observation, inviting viewers to embark on an immersive journey through the lens of my camera. With each turn of the page, readers are transported to lush forests, vast savannas, and untamed wildernesses, where the raw majesty of nature unfolds in stunning detail. From the delicate flutter of a butterfly's wings to the commanding presence of a majestic predator, every image captures a moment frozen in time, brimming with life and vitality. Through descriptive prose woven seamlessly with each photograph, I offer insights and reflections, inviting readers to pause, contemplate, and connect with the profound beauty that surrounds us. "Seeing Wild" is more than a collection of images; it is an ode to the wonders of our natural world, a celebration of its diversity, and a testament to the importance of conservation. Whether you're an avid nature enthusiast, a photography aficionado, or simply someone seeking inspiration and awe, this book promises to ignite your sense of wonder and leave you spellbound by the untamed splendor of our planet.
Flashes of Brilliance
Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, or watch a movie or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous--and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, New York Times photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blends art, science, and social history to reveal the most dramatic developments in photography from its birth in the 1830s to the early twentieth century.Writing with verve and and an eye for the compelling detail, Burgess explores how photographers uncovered new vistas, including dark caves and catacombs, cities at night, the depths of the ocean, and the surface of the moon. She describes how photographers captured the world as never seen before, showing for the first time the bones of humans, the motion of animals, the cells of plants, and the structure of snowflakes. She takes us on a tour of astonishing innovations, including botanist Anna Atkins and her extraordinary blue-hued cyanotypes and the world's first photobook; Eadweard Muybridge and ?tienne-Jules Marey's famed experiments in capturing motion and their long legacy; the work of Nadar, Carleton E. Watkins, and other leading pioneers of large-scale photography; and aerial photography using balloons, kites, and pigeons. Burgess also delves into the early connections between photography and society that are still with us today: how photo manipulation--the art of "fake images"--was an issue right from the start; how the police used the telephoto lens to surveil suffragists and others; and how leading Black figures like Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass adapted self-portraits to assert their identity and autonomy.Richly illustrated and filled with fascinating tales, Flashes of Brilliance shows how the rise of a new art form transformed culture and our view of the world.
Magnum: A World of Photography
Chock full of contact sheets, slides and notes, this exclusive look into the Magnum archives uncovers hidden treasures by Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Leonard Freed and morePublished with Foto Arsenal Wien. You've seen that photo of James Dean in Times Square before you saw it on this book's cover. But how do these world-famous images come into being? Where and why are they first published? And how are they preserved for future generations? Magnum: A World of Photography examines the cutting-edge archiving strategies of the renowned Magnum Photos, founded in 1947 and still representing some of the most influential practitioners in the history of photography.Made in close collaboration with Magnum, this book reveals undiscovered processes through a wealth of material: from contact sheets and darkroom experiments to vintage prints and slides, from magazines and newspapers to books and personal correspondence. With each chapter dedicated to one photographer, from the firm's inception to the present day, Magnum offers a behind-the-scenes look into the archives of Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Inge Morath, Leonard Freed and more.
Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs
The first publication dedicated to the perceptive photographic oeuvre of one of the most important postwar architects and co-author of the influential Learning from Las VegasFor Denise Scott Brown (born 1931), who is among the most important architects of the postwar era, photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive, document and think about the world in which designers operate. Fascinated by the ephemeral and the everyday, Scott Brown took photographs for fun, research and teaching, and later as a component of design and planning projects. Through the lens of her Alpa camera she sought to penetrate the irreducible complexities of life around her--and to make a case for the architect and planner's role in intervening within it. Encounters gathers an essential collection of Scott Brown's photography from the 1950s to the 1970s, presented here for the first time.The book focuses on the formative decades during which Scott Brown departed her childhood home of Johannesburg to study in London, traveled through Europe, moved to the United States, met her partner Robert Venturi and eventually developed the profound interest in postwar suburbia from which her most famous work, Learning from Las Vegas, would emerge. Moving thematically rather than sequentially through Scott Brown's photographic oeuvre, Encounters opens up new ways of reading this body of work, presenting it less as a continuous historical record than as the product of a careful and studied practice of observation.
Midwest City
Longtime Midwest City resident and author Malana Bracht joins efforts with key historical leaders of Midwest City and institutions such as the Midwest City High School History Center, Rose State College Foundation, and Atkinson Heritage Center to deliver this city's rich story to the new generation of Midwest City residents looking to understand the heart behind the model city and its founders.In the early 1940s, a visionary developer named W.P. "Bill" Atkinson set out to find the perfect location for an incoming air depot to be built in Oklahoma by the US War Department. With a hunch and a wink, he purchased a large plot of land and later incorporated Midwest City in 1943 with the purpose of attracting and supporting Midwestern families and businesses relocating to work at the new plant. The plant later became the iconic Tinker Air Force Base. Awarded as the "Model City of the Midwest," Midwest City became a city of hope for families looking to have a better life while supporting the nation's military efforts. Using creative marketing strategies such as selling ponies with homes, intentional city planning for family living, and cultivating Norman Rockwellian culture, Midwest City grew and positioned itself as an innovative leader in the region. Having many familial ties to Midwest City and Tinker Air Force Base, Bracht tells the story of Midwest City from its founding, continuing its legacy for generations to come.
Behind Mountains
Untamed Beauty: Iceland from the perspective of the award-winning photographerFor forty-five years, the Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson has observed the farmers of his homeland during the sheep roundups. This centuries-old tradition takes place every autumn and is often carried out on horseback or on foot. In his third publication with Kehrer Verlag, Axelsson presents powerful, atmospheric black- and-white photographs that impressively document the interaction between people and their animals, as well as with the rugged landscape. Majestic rolling hills, besieged by roaring snow and rainstorms, rough lava rock, and massive rock formations convey a realistic and compelling image of the extraordinary connection between humans and nature. Axelsson's work has been honored with numerous awards, including the Prix Pictet shortlist and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Honorable Mention).
Henry O. Head: Twelve Acres
A haunting photographic return to adolescent mysteries in the OzarksIn this debut monograph, American photographer Henry O. Head reimagines the peaks and valleys of a defining teenage friendship in the Ozark hills where he spent his adolescence. From spring 2023 through summer 2024, Head revisited the terrain of northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri--wild country with limestone bluffs shot through with quartz, where cottonmouths coil on exposed roots by slow creeks and alligator gar glide like phantoms through the dark. Twelve Acres recalls a boyhood outside city limits, away from institutions and the pressures of social order. In a progression through the seasons, a restlessness presses in, a longing to stave off the rupture of entering an adult reality, with its mundanity and responsibilities. In this meditation on personal history, worlds quiver in a chaos of past and present forms and stark flashes of image begin to wobble in an opaque well. Tops spin. Animals with thirst cup liquid light. Memory remains an ineffable mystery. Twelve Acres is a reverie, wherein the past reemerges as boys with tick-bitten feet, ears ringing from homemade explosives, clothes stained by the smoke of shoplifted cigarettes and arms stretched toward higher branches.
Family Amnesia
Family Amnesia is a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist's Chinese American family roots in the U.S. The art book explores her family's multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, her grandfather's photographs, her own captured images and archival material.The book project honors the past and current lives of Asian Americans and immigrants in the U.S. by examining the incalculable and traumatic impact that historical events like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act continue to have on the Asian American experience. This is a painful part of our American history. Betty Yu is reclaiming that narrative through her own personal family's story. The book will features her grandfather's role as a founding member of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of NY, her mother's plight as a garment worker who became a labor organizer, as well as her sister's legacy as a community activist. Yu knows that her family's story is not unique. It is part of the larger collective Asian-American immigration experience.This book project reminds us that the rise of COVID-related anti-Asian violence is part of a larger history of systemic racism. As the U.S. government and corporate-run media continue to vilify China as a global threat, Family Amnesia recalls the anti-China and anti-Asian paranoia and hysteria that created the policies like the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1942 Executive Order that placed Japanese-Americans into internment camps. The book will also draw visually on geo-political history, recalling narratives that mocked China as the "sick man of Asia '' and that demonized Chinese as "Yellow Peril".
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The Afterglow of Industry
The Afterglow of Industry brings together photographs from a ten-year project in which artist Chris Corson-Scott repeatedly travelled the extent of Aotearoa New Zealand, seeking out unknown, or remote sites which illuminate our dysfunctional present. Following this, several years were spent researching and writing on each of the 79 photographs featured in this book. In these texts, colonial and industrial histories weave in and out of geology, pre- European Māori history, outside forces from the United States and Europe, and contemporary issues like privatisation, asset sales, the New Zealand housing crisis, and the country's rebranding as a 'clean & green' tourist destination.Similar to the collapse of America's industrial Midwest, New Zealand has also experienced the whiplash of industry vanishing. Here though, this has been complicated by much of this industry first emerging in conjunction with European colonization. Corson-Scott's work focuses on these tensions, particularly in Te Waipounamu South Island, where the regions of the West Coast and Otago see industrial remnants contrasted with vast and complex landscapes. From these areas come images of freezing works on sacred rivers, contested mining projects, dwellings of 19 th century Chinese miners, gold processing plants still contaminated more than a century later, floods of acid mine drainage, and the demolition of factories which once built the country's modern infrastructure. Elsewhere, on a remote sandspit is one of history's largest whale strandings, industrial spaces are repurposed by artists, controversial hydroelectric schemes divert rivers, ancient forest remnants become tourism, and city fringe orchards are bulldozed for development.
Unsupervised
Unsupervised is an intimate look at the modern family. With the birth of social media came the ability for anyone to present a highly curated version of themselves and their life, oftentimes under the social pressures to appear "perfect". Kirsten Lewis has watched this directly affect how parents, especially mothers, share their life with the outside virtual world.
Thank You Bye
- A unique and intimate, behind-the-scenes, first hand testimony of the fashion world viewed from the eyes of a fashion model- A index of terminology used in the modeling industry- A visual narrative and diary- Contemporary snap-shot photography"THANK YOU BYE was born out of a need to put down somewhere what I have experienced over the last five years. Although it gives the impression of a veil being lifted, it is simply a record of my personal experience. The intention, through these hundreds of photos, is to transcribe the absurd, crazy and little-known world of modelling, by means of an unpublished souvenir album of my time spent in fashion. The result is THANK YOU BYE, which owes its name to the phrase uttered by casting directors every time you walk in front of them. It recounts my moments of sadness, my anxieties, my unease, my questions, but also our laughter, our travels, our togetherness, our mutual support. Five years during which I fought not to lose myself. Thrown at the age of 18 at a speed I found hard to manage into a dimension that was not my own, I embrace all the models who 'pose' in this book and who, without realising it, helped me to escape. What you hold in your hands is none other than the last chance to prove that I was still worth something. When you turn the last page, you'll know that I've resigned and can finally say that I'm happy." - Cl矇mentine Balcaen
Lucky / Udachny: Hanne Van Assche
- A glimpse into this special diamond mining village in the far East of Russia, beautifully documented by Hanne Van Assche- Portraits of locals including young children, mothers, families and strangers on the street shown in a serene and still way among the snowy backdrops and old-fashioned interiorsLUCKY / Udachny by Hanne Van Assche documents a small mining town in the far East of Russia called Udachny - a remote region captured in the icy grip of winter throughout most of the year. Few people choose to live here, but those who do are proud citizens. Yakutia is known as the treasury of Russia. It is one of the world's richest regions in natural resources. According to a Siberian legend, God once spilled a bag of earthly treasures over this part of the country. A thick layer of permafrost covers large reserves of coal, gas, gold and diamonds. Despite the barren climate most of the year, the heart of the people remains warm. The hospitality and optimism of the inhabitants soothes the harsh climate. It is they who turn the scenery of a frozen and isolated world, defined by extraordinary contrasts, into a vibrant and colorful community.
Thank You for Playing with Me
- An intimate look at female beauty, photographed in a self-loving, powerful and playful gesture, revealing the inner-life and confidence of Enam and Vanessa, two women that Yolanda met thanks to photography and her invitation to portray the two of them over a few years around the UK- Soft and beautiful colors, with all photographs captured on Kodak Portra film- Yoland Y. Liou is an upcoming London-based photographer with energy and an incredible hard-working attitude that'll certainly take her farShot over three years from 2019 to 2022, Thank You For Playing With Me by Yolanda Y. Liou is an intimate look at two plus-size models, Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell. Liou first came across Asiama's Instagram in 2019 and was blown away by her confidence and charisma. It was the type of confidence that Liou struggled to have about her own body due to her upbringing in Taiwan. "Growing up in Taiwan, I was consistently exposed to the relentless beauty standards that prioritised being skinny... This obsession led me to believe that I was never beautiful enough, and consequently, I felt unworthy of love. I constantly sought ways to conform, believing that only then would I be accepted and appreciated." Liou's main aim with this photo book is to help people embrace their individuality.
Italian Summer
Tour the most iconic spots along the coast of Italy through the lens of fine arts photographer Natalie Obradovich who captures the soul of each destination with affection and nuance. From Ischia to Capri, Amalfi and Sicily, Italy's most iconic coastal travel destinations are poetically explored through the lens of fine arts photographer Natalie Obradovich who captures the soul of each location with affection and nuance. Each image is a postcard from the shores of the Italian beach clubs and towns that define summer.
Ditch: Montauk, New York, 11954
Nat Ward's timeless photographs of Montauk's most famous beach, Ditch Plains, tell the naked, unedited stories of who we are when the sand is a stage: sensual beings, social creatures, dramatic actors, those who want and wish to be wanted, those who look, and those who wish to be looked at. Featuring forty-nine panoramic photographs, Ditch: Montauk, New York, 11954 revels in a place where pleasure is paramount, divisions disappear, and everyone is welcome to crowd in together on the sand and stare, however impolite it may be. Legendary musician Rufus Wainwright and his husband J繹rn Weisbrodt as well as writer Wayne Koestenbaum contribute heartfelt essays. Stumbling down a makeshift path through a sand cliff in 2018, Ward found the crowded, raucous reality of Ditch Plains, Montauk's most famous surf beach. It's a place where families, surfers, retirees, artists and writers, social media influencers, contractors, landscapers, celebrities, and day traders all crush together on the rocky shore for a day. This books brings to light the high/low culture on a beach known for being a low-key celebrity hideout. Emblematic of a laid back fishing village that became swanky. It is a place where politics are more unseemly than naked flesh, where human pleasure is sought out in public view. Struck by this libertine opposition to antagonistic norms, Ward photographed the denizens of Ditch every day for four summers. In the process, Ward became a fully-fledged member of the eclectic tribe: a half-naked, long-haired character with a clown camera that no one could miss. The photographs in DITCH: MONTAUK, NY 11954 navigate the trickier engagements of looking and being looked at: the epic sweep of multiple dramas playing out across the sand, the confrontations, the seductions, the freedom to be a body amongst other bodies splayed in public, the hints at desire and reticence, the skin, the sun, the heat, the salt, the slippages of masculinity and femininity performed, the lounging in a way that purposefully conceals or reveals, the unexpected and clarion gestures of children, the futility in the drive to hold on to youthful appearance, and the inevitable process of aging toward an entropic end. Ward's panoramas are inspired by the visual energy of American photographic masters Helen Levitt, Weegee, and Lisette Model, along with Italian Neorealist standouts like Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thieves and Rossellini's Rome, Open City. Legendary musician, queer icon, and long-time Montauk resident Rufus Wainwright contributes an introduction in collaboration with his husband, Jorn Weisbrodt, that provides insight into the history of Montauk and delves into the intimate, social, and psychological realities of the beach as featured in Ward's panoramic efforts. And a signal afterword by renowned poet, iconoclast, and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum parses the visceral, sensual pleasure to be found in these images while also leaning into the idea that pleasure of this sort must serve as an inspiration toward a radical departure from the monomania and divisive strife of everyday life.
Twice
- A classical analogue black-and-white street portrait photobook, documenting people in twos and threes - Europe's Diane Arbus - Jacques Sonck has a taste for the unusual, the special and the out-of-place- Jacques Sonck was recently exhibited in Stichting Foundation A, Brussels and in Vichy, FranceTwice by Jacques Sonck brings together duo-toned portraits of people in twos and threes that Jacques Sonck photographed on the street over the course of thirty years. Jacques Sonck shoots classical analogue black-and-white portraits with an eye for the extraordinary. His oeuvre is a celebration of the diversity of humankind. Sonck is attracted by people who stand out from the crowd, either by an anomaly in their appearance or by their extrovert attitude and Twice demonstrates diversity and his anthropological taste within photography. His eccentric models are unique individuals who walk the border of 'normality'. Although his work is often compared with that of Diane Arbus, who photographed humans on the margins of society, Sonck is more interested in the physical appearance than in the social position of his subjects. In English and French.
Cuba Photography Missions
- Like photography itself, Cuba Photography Missions is slippery, complex and multi-layered. It is self-defined as a project in documentary photography; it is a collaborative international exchange among institutions and artists; it is an educational initiative; it has resulted in artIn 2019, Cuba celebrated the 60th anniversary of the revolution. In 1959, Fidel Castro and Ch矇 Guevarra ousted dictator Batista and the country entered a utopian future. But Soviet communism and the American embargo forced Cuba to survive because the country remained fundamentally committed to the socialist values of the revolution. Against this background, an extensive photography project was set up with four Cuban and four European participants. Taking the current reality of the island as a starting point, they each developed a project, which together provide a nuanced picture of the complex country. The eight projects pit the photographic interpretations of the local artists against those of the Europeans. The project starts from 'heritage' in the broadest sense of the word and focuses on the past, present and future of Cuba. Cuba Photography Missions proposes an approach to reality in the country from the personal poetics of our artists and their European counterparts, assuming Cuban contemporaneity as a topic of reflection, among universal aspects that specify the thematic and formal coherence of the exhibition. Participating photographers: Ossain Raggi Gonzalez, Bert Danckaert, Linet Sanchez, Charlotte Lybeer, Liudmila & Nelson, Ulla Deventer, Ricardo Elias and Simon Roberts. Text English and Spanish.
You Are Home
You Are Home is the ultimate guide to creating a space that nourishes and supports you - one that lifts your mood when you turn your key in the front door and offers you a refuge from the world outside. If Africa Daley-Clarke has learned one thing, it's that when you live in a nurturing environment that reflects your unique and indomitable spirit, you have the foundations to thrive in all areas of your life. In this book she shows you how to do the same. Whether you are a tenant or a homeowner, whether you have one room to consider or many, Africa's guidance on values, provenance, and belonging will give you the tools and the confidence to create a home that is uniquely yours. Divided into four sections - Live, Embrace, Source, Create - You Are Home will empower you with everything you need to tap into your individuality and live a more authentic and peaceful life.
The Hand Camera Manual; a Beginner’s Guide to Photography in its Connection With the Hand Camera
The Hand Camera Manual, originally published in 1896, serves as a comprehensive guide for beginners venturing into the world of photography using hand cameras. Written by Walter D. Welford, this manual provides essential knowledge on camera operation and photographic techniques prevalent at the time. Covering a range of topics from selecting the right equipment to mastering exposure and composition, this book offers practical advice for capturing stunning images. It delves into the intricacies of developing and printing photographs, ensuring a thorough understanding of the entire photographic process. Whether you are a photography enthusiast or a historian, this book offers invaluable insights into the early days of portable photography and its evolving technology.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter
Critical insight into the mind and eye of an artist renowned for her work investigating history, identity, and power.Transcending medium, chronology, and geography, Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter puts the artist--as well as her spiritual and philosophical journeys--at the center of the discourse. Weems is a touchstone artist, renowned for her work investigating history, identity, and power. A comprehensive monograph, The Heart of the Matter features generous presentations of landmark bodies of work, from Family Pictures and Stories (1981-82) to her most recent series on the Black church. Throughout the book, the artist's spiritual musings provide critical insight into the iconic artist's mind and eye. Newly commissioned essays and additional contributions from esteemed thinkers and scholars across generations underscore the singular value of Weems's vision in grappling with the complexities and injustices of the world around us. Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter will accompany a related exhibition at Gallerie d'Italia, Turin, opening in April 2025.The book is copublished by Aperture and Allemandi Editore.
The Great American Retro Road Trip
Celebrate the nostalgic pleasures of America's vintage signs, quirky roadside attractions, and offbeat fast food relics in this irresistible retro road trip across the country. The Great American Retro Road Trip is a coast-to-coast journey chronicling retro roadside America. Discover classic giant roadside attractions, from The Coffee Pot and The Big Duck to the World's Largest Paint Can and the Haines Shoe House. Or iconic signage, like the dazzling Yoken's neon sign, and the classic Moon Motel sign. Still-standing vintage locations of America's favorite chain restaurants, from Pizza Hut to McDonald's to Taco Bell. Through author Rolando Pujol's anecdotes and clever narrative, readers will come away with a sweeping sense of roadside charm that still exists, as well as a desire to see it all for themselves. These lingering traces of America's past are an archive of disappearing roadside signage and architecture, and they tell a story of American ingenuity, creativity, and community. Whether you pick up this book for the nostalgia-inducing photos, the heartwarming stories, or as a reference for planning your own trip, you'll be encouraged to, as Pujol says, "Let your curiosity guide you."
Airplane Photography
Dive into the pioneering era of flight with "Airplane Photography," a fascinating glimpse into the techniques and challenges of capturing images from the skies in the early 20th century. Authored by Herbert Eugene Ives, this book offers invaluable insights into the methods used to photograph from airplanes when aviation was still in its infancy. Explore the historical context, the equipment utilized, and the innovative approaches required to overcome the unique obstacles presented by aerial photography during this period. This volume is a treasure trove for photography enthusiasts, aviation historians, and anyone curious about the intersection of technology and artistry in the early days of flight.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
