Download or read book Photographs of the Iowa Art Program written by United States. Work Projects Administration (Iowa) and published by . This book was released on 193? with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Gravity and What Cheer written by and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Barry Phipps relocated to Iowa City from Chicago in 2012, he knew nothing of Iowa. He began taking day trips across Iowa in the spirit of wonder and discovery. His marked-up road map soon became a work of art in and of itself, covered with spokes, lines, and places both seen and needing to be seen. Along the way he plied his trade, taking photographs. Inspired by such seminal work as Robert Frank’s The Americans, this is a unique vision of the Midwest and Iowa. Without condescending or overemphasizing the decline of small town America, Phipps documents rural communities as they are now, noting abstract shapes and colors as he photographs business districts with quirky and/or artful signs, streetscapes and landscapes, buildings with ghosts of paint from previous lives, and the occasional resident. In addition to their startling attention to color and geometry, Phipps’s photos delight because they suggest an author who isn’t on intimate terms with his subject matter, but very much wants to be. Though the photographs in this collection frequently maintain a cautious distance from the houses, water towers, and iconography he captures on film, the pictures feel, at once, eager and shy. Phipps admires his new home—from afar, by varying degrees—and excitedly introduces himself to it: the first steps of a journey toward claiming Iowa as his.
Download or read book Iowa Arts Council written by Iowa Arts Council and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Bicentennial Photography and Film Project 1975 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty, and Migratory Labor and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change written by Cheryll Glotfelty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change narrates the forty-year quest of award-winning and internationally exhibited contemporary photographer Peter Goin to document human-altered landscapes across America and beyond. It is a collaborative work between an artist and a literary critic, a retrospective of an accomplished environmental photographer, and an innovative education in visual reading. Enduring howling wind, pounding rain, and blistering sun, Goin bears witness to radioactive landscapes, abandoned mines, simulated swamps, rechanneled rivers, controlled burns, overgrown ruins, industrialized agriculture, shrinking reservoirs, feral spaces in the city, architected wilderness, sacred wastelands, contested borderlands, and more. Based on more than seventy hours of taped interviews with the artist spanning over a decade, trailblazing ecocritic Cheryll Glotfelty narrates the arc of Goin's career, sharing excerpts from their conversations that reveal his brilliant mind and piquant personality while situating his work within the broader context of environmental thinkers. This beautifully illustrated volume, with 200 images in color and black-and-white showcasing Goin’s work, will be a fascinating and insightful read for upper-level students, academics, and researchers in photography, environmental history and culture, landscape studies, and environmental humanities.
Download or read book Watershed written by Jeff Rich and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project began on December 22, 2008. The failure of a containment pond dyke spilled 5.4 million cubic yards of coal ash belonging to the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Kingston Fossil Plant into the Emory River and its surrounding landscape. What led to this point?Jeff Rich investigates the river itself and the TVA's vast reach and power throughout the region. It has forever changed the environment of its watershed that is in every way at odds with the natural evolution and ecology of the Tennessee River system.
Download or read book Art and Life in Africa written by Christopher D. Roy and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1975 76 Iowa Arts Council Programs written by Iowa State Arts Council and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photographer s Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Horizons written by Keith F. Davis and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways. 96 colour & 200 b/w illustrations
Download or read book Arts Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iowa written by Nancy Rexroth and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rexroth's most notable work, Iowa, is a series of dream-like and poetic images.Each seemingly candid and liquid composition includes a soft focus and vignette, characteristic qualities of Diana camera images. [...] The Iowa series subconsciously expresses Rexroth's childhood memories of visiting family in Iowa. Growing up in the suburbs of Arlington, Virginia, she was captivated by the exotic summer landscapes of Iowa. Although the influence of her memories is present, Rexroth refers to Iowa as a hallucinatory state of mind rather than a concrete geographic location of personal sentiment. She describes Iowa as 'conceived of as a kind of psychic journey from one emotional mood to the next-- a maturation process. It all happens in a place which is very exotic.' In the introduction to the book, Mark L. Power describes this work as 'Sunny Iowa was transformed by memory into a dark Iowa with "a real feeling of melancholy." [...]"
Download or read book Art for Iowa s Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every human being has within him feelings and emotions which crave expression. Since the days when the early cave man scratched on stone walls the story of his deeds and conquests men have sought and found many ways to express feelings and emotions—architecture, painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and drama. In this field art plays a significant part. Its value as a medium of commmunication, as a pathway to creative experiences and as a source of beauty can hardly be overstressed. To quote Elbert Hubbard "Art is beauty and beauty is a gratification, a peace and a solace to every man and woman— Art is the beautiful way of doing things." This handbook "Art for Iowa's Children" will bring to the boys and girls of our schools, photographs showing Iowa boys and girls satisfying this urge to create beauty in many ways—drawing, painting, modeling, designing, weaving, carving, flower arrangement, furniture arrangement, home and school decoration. It will encourage other boys and girls to attempt many ways of expressing their own ideas—to be courageous and inventive. The handbook is based on the thesis that a teacher does not need to be an artist to provide a dynamic art program. The teacher who understands child nature, who has a knowledge of desirable art experiences for children at various stages of growth, and some ideas for encouraging their active participation in art experiences, can make the entire school experience a richer adventure in living. The many suggestions for use of various media will assist teachers to achieve a higher degree of knowledge and skill in art education. The success of the program depends upon the interest and enthusiasm of the teacher. This heritage of expression should be offered to every child. As he observes and experiences all life, some child will find igniting in him the spark of genius and all of the children come into an understanding and apppreciation of the wonder and beauty in their everyday world."--Foreword
Download or read book Photography and Art written by Andy Grundberg and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arts Older Americans written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State College of Iowa Permanent Collection written by State College of Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of art works in the State College of Iowa permanent collection. Includes descriptions of the works, information about the artists, and photographs of the works.
Download or read book Driftless written by Danny Wilcox Frazier and published by Center for Documentary Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize Robert Frank, Prize Judge In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Frazier's dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people, resources, and services are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier's arresting photographs take us into Iowa's abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals: Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer, Latinos at work in the fields. Frazier's camera finds these newcomers while it also captures activities that seemingly have gone on forever: harvesting and hunting, celebrating and socializing, praying and surviving. This collection of photographs is a portrait of contemporary rural Iowa, but it is also more that that. It shows what is happening in many rural and out-of-the-way communities all over the United States, where people find ways to get by in the wake of closing factories and the demise of family farms. Taken by a true insider who has lived in Iowa his entire life, Frazier's photographs are rich in emotion and give expression to the hopes and desires of the people who remain, whose needs and wants are complicated by the economic realities remaking rural America. Poetic and dark but illuminated with flashes of insight, Frazier's stunning images evoke the brilliance of Robert Frank's The Americans. To view an image gallery, click here.
