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Richard Cahan

Autor/a de Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows

22+ obres 457 Membres 8 Ressenyes

Obres de Richard Cahan

Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows (2012) 118 exemplars
Real Chicago (2004) 19 exemplars
Chicago: Classic Photographs (2017) 7 exemplars
Real Chicago Sports (2005) 6 exemplars

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Un-American features the pictures of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and other government photographers tasked with documenting the Japanese-American Internment process. Some of these images are being released to the public for the first time. This is an excellent resource for finding incredibly powerful pictures of the Internment process.
 
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carterberry | Feb 5, 2024 |
For a couple of decades around the end of the 19th century, the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan demonstrated a new vision for what cities could be in the twentieth century, designing ornamented skyscrapers and public buildings that added breathtaking beauty to the urban environment. These were the Taj Mahals and Hagia Sophias of American architecture, but only a few remain: the overwhelming majority of them fell to the wrecking ball in the 1950s and '60s. The photographer and architecture enthusiast Richard Nickel made it his life's work to photograph and catalog them before they fell, planning a book, The Complete Architecture of Adler and Sullivan, that was still uncompleted at the time of his death in 1972.

That book was finally published in 2010, but it's out of print and costs hundreds of dollars if you can find a copy. Richard Nickel: Dangerous Years is your next best bet—and maybe even the better one. Richard Cahan and Michael Williams built this book around Nickel's photographs and letters, letting them speak for themselves about Nickel and his work. And they are astonishing. The photographs, beautifully reproduced on the glossy pages of this large-format volume, capture the wonder with which Nickel must have approached their subjects, and the letters help bring to life the passion and seriousness of purpose of a man who most considered an eccentric, if not a crank. I literally gasped as I turned the pages. I've accumulated quite a few "coffee table books" over the years—this is far and away my favorite.

If your tastes in design run from Corbusier to IKEA, this isn't the book for you. If you're more fascinated by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Frank Lloyd Wright, you owe it to yourself to learn about (or learn more about) Adler and Sullivan, and this book is where to start. And if you've never thought about historic architecture, this book may even turn you into a preservationist. Just marvelous.
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john.cooper | Dec 28, 2021 |
Il volume è interessante non solo per la belleza delle fotografie ma anche perchè ripercorre la vita della Maier associando gli eventi più importanti per lei e la socità americana con i grandi temi affrontati dal suo sguardo.
 
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claudio.marchisio | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Apr 2, 2015 |

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