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Book Maritime New York in Nineteenth century Photographs

Download or read book Maritime New York in Nineteenth century Photographs written by Harry Johnson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich treasury of 210 vintage views of New York harbor before 1900. Clipper ships, South Street docks, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Cunard liners, much more. Many photos never before published. Unique record of Old New York via early photography.

Book The New York World s Fair  1939 1940 in 155 Photographs

Download or read book The New York World s Fair 1939 1940 in 155 Photographs written by Richard Wurts and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyse: Photographies de Richard Wurts, Carl van Vechten, Samuel H. Gottscho, Underwood & Underwood, Sigurd Fisher et Michael L. Radoslovich.

Book Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs  1865 1929

Download or read book Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs 1865 1929 written by William Lee Younger and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 157 photographs, many never before reprinted, show the vitality and variety of old Brooklyn: waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge, Fulton Street, Brooklyn Heights, Ebbets Field, Luna Park, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach Hotel, more.

Book Old Queens  N Y   in Early Photographs

Download or read book Old Queens N Y in Early Photographs written by Vincent F. Seyfried and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recalls "good old days" in Maspeth, Jamaica, Astoria, Jackson Heights, other areas: DeWitt Clinton mansion, hotel where Washington slept (1790), plus recent landmarks — Astoria Studios, 1939 World's Fair, more. 261 prints.

Book New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century

Download or read book New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century written by Joseph Byron and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptive notes and a discussion of stylistic influences augment one hundred thirty-one rare photographs portraying the interiors of New York City homes, businesses, and public places between 1893 and 1916

Book The Great Sights of New York

Download or read book The Great Sights of New York written by James Spero and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated guide with striking photos, detailed captions on Empire State Building, United Nations, Times Square, Statue of Liberty, other landmarks.

Book Sea Currents in Nineteenth Century Art  Science and Culture

Download or read book Sea Currents in Nineteenth Century Art Science and Culture written by Kathleen Davidson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Examining the commoditization of the ocean world during the nineteenth century, this book demonstrates how the transaction of oceanic objects inspired a multifaceted material discourse stemming from scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization, and the rise of middle-class leisure. From the seashore to the seabed, marine organisms and environments, made tangible through processing and representational technologies, captivated practitioners and audiences. Combining essays and case studies by scholars, curators, and scientists, Sea Currents investigates the collecting and display, illustration and ornamentation, and trade and consumption of marine flora and fauna, analysing their material, aesthetic and commercial dimensions. Traversing global art history, the history of science, empire studies, anthropology, ecocriticism and material culture, this book surveys the currency of marine matter embedded in the economies and ecologies of a modernizing ocean world.

Book New York Then and Now

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward B. Watson
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2012-08-02
  • ISBN : 0486131068
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book New York Then and Now written by Edward B. Watson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Manhattan sites are set against more modern photos taken from same position: Times Square, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, many more. Includes 83 early photographs from 1875 to 1925 contrasted with photos taken in 1976.

Book Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography written by John Hannavy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 1629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.

Book Cinema of Exploration

Download or read book Cinema of Exploration written by James Leo Cahill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together 18 contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema’s century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus. This is the first anthology dedicated to analysing cinema’s relationship to exploration from a global, decolonial, and ecological perspective. Featuring leading scholars working with pathbreaking interdisciplinary methodologies (drawing on insights from science and technology studies, postcolonial theory, indigenous ways of knowing, and film theory and history), it theorizes not only cinema’s implication in imperial conquest but also its cutting-edge role in empirical expansion and experiments in sensual and critical perception. The collected essays consider filmmaking in cross-cultural contexts and films made in or about peoples in South America, Asia, Africa, Indigenous North America, as well as polar, outer space, and underwater exploration, with famous figures such as Jacques Yves Cousteau alongside amateur and scientific filmmakers. The essays in this collection are ideal for a broad range of scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in cinema and media studies, cultural studies, and cognate fields.

Book Slavery  Geography and Empire in Nineteenth Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica

Download or read book Slavery Geography and Empire in Nineteenth Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica written by CharmaineA. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement.

Book Seaport

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book Seaport written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maritime Science and Technology  Changing Our World

Download or read book Maritime Science and Technology Changing Our World written by Nigel Watson and published by Lloyd's Register . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses some key questions - Did the marine sector drive the developing technologies? Or did it just adopt them? It would appear that the former is the case - as the industry has moved from sail to steam, from steam to internal combustion engines, from wood to steel and to increasing sizes and types of specialist vessels - the pioneers of naval architects and marine engineers have applied the latest technologies, and our global society has benefited.

Book A Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge

Download or read book A Picture History of the Brooklyn Bridge written by Mary J. Shapiro and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. Rare contemporary photos and engravings and accompanying detailed captions recall construction, human drama, politics, much more. 167 black-and-white illustrations.

Book Ship  Sea   Sky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard B. Grassby
  • Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Ship Sea Sky written by Richard B. Grassby and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the nineteenth-century American artist's marine paintings

Book Picture Ecology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan C. Braddock
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-10-26
  • ISBN : 0691236011
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Picture Ecology written by Alan C. Braddock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art, in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant.

Book Going Coastal  New York City

Download or read book Going Coastal New York City written by Barbara La Rocco and published by Going Coastal, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ultra-useful guide that brings together all the information necessary to enjoy the waterfront, in a compact, well-organized form - Phillip Lopate, author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan Use this guide to discover the beaches, boardwalks, historic sites, and marine attractions, as well as the limitless opportunities for waterside fun, dining, and adventure in the five boros of New York. Designed for travelers and locals, alike, Going Coastal New York City offers the best, most comprehensive information on what's happening along New York City's over 500 miles of coastline.