Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis, 1900 - 1930
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1883982839 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Angela Dietz is the director of digital initiatives for the Missouri History Museum. She is the author of Paper Dolls Inspired by the Clothing Collection of the Missouri Historical Society.. About the AuthorJoseph Heathcott is a writer, curator, and educator based in New York City where he teaches at the New School. He is also the author of Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization
Angela Dietz is the director of digital initiatives for the Missouri History Museum. He is also the author of Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Joseph Heathcott is a writer, curator, and educator based in New York City where he teaches at the New School. She is the author of Paper Dolls Inspire
In this vein, Holt and his staff showcased both the challenges and the successes of government action in St. Across the nation, cities used photographers to document slums, workhouses, and crime scenes, as well as municipal improvements like street lighting, pavement, and model housing. Largely led by Charles Clement Holt (1866–1925), St. Louis’s photography operation expanded until it produced about six thousand images per year in 1914. Reformers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine imagined the camera as a truth-telling instrument and used their photographs to mobilize public consciousness. Many of these photographs were lost, but a city historian salvaged a collection of three hundred glass plate negatives in the 1950s, which are now in the Missouri Historical Society collections. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, the St. Louis during a period of rapid transformation. Consistent with their Progressive-era peers, their efforts contributed to the record of ongoing public works while shaping the narrative of urban progress itself.. Capturing the City is the first book to examine these photographs, placing the people and landscapes depicted within the broader context of a swiftly urbanizing and industrializing metropolis. This small, but superb, group of photographs provides a wealth of information on the visual culture of St. Louis Stre
"Five Stars" according to Patricia A. Dickherber. Fabulous book if you are interested in St. Louis and history.. I really like this book I really like this book. The photos were displayed at the History Museum and I was very glad a book was published with them. I had taken photos but those in book much better.. Five Stars Enjoying this book, very much. The photographs are packed in, and not stingy on quality.