Recent work in the visual arts has often investigated the opposition between natural and constructed worlds. In The Time After, which references the process of photography as well as the future fate of our planet, fine arts photographer Doug Fogelson uses an iconoclastic multiple exposure technique in order to depict our collective surroundings, producing imagery that reflects our own alien experience of nature, as well as the distanced perspective of the viewer. This volume collects over 160 of Fogelson's spectacular images and pairs them with speculative and poetic essays by Derrick Jensen, Eiren Caffall, and Bridgette R. McCullough. Sharply contrasting built (or processed) scenes with rich natural images, the design of these photographs speaks to both our changing understanding of our role in the environment and the increasingly prominent place of activism in contemporary art practice." --Book Jacket.
Shown in diverse architectural settings, photographer Doug Fogelson presents sixty of his photographs manipulated by forty Chicago graffiti artists and includes four essays written by Illinois-based professors and artists on graffiti's social, artistic, and historical significance.
Front Forty Press enlisted nine notable graphic designers to reinterpret the sonnet form through the language of design and photography. A sonnet is a dialectical construct that usually explores two contrastive ideas, events, emotions, etc. by juxtaposing carefully patterned rhyme schemes. Sonnets are fourteen lines long and come out in a variety of forms and variations. Each designer was provided a suite of photographic images from a category within the ‘built environment’. In fourteen pages (or seven spreads) each designers was then free to explore and meditate on their own relationship with this part of the landscape as they wished. The book opens with New York based art director, designer, and new media artist Sebatien Derenoncourt’s vividly colorful and deeply personal response to the built environment in “Infrastructure”. Jennifer Brunner’s “Apertures” is a soft poetic exploration of light. She, like many artists in the book, utilizes imagery instead of written words to create her sonnet. “Construction” is a visually jarring concrete landscape littered with symbols of human greed and hints at the destruction that it brings. Nate Euhus cleverly simulates the vibration of new construction for the viewer through his bold designs. Bob Faust’s take on “Roads” is more of a fantastical optical illusion than a clear route. A dizzying journey through the art of Dominy Edwards depicts “Pathways” in their many forms. William Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXVII provides the base to her piece. Russell Lord’s graphic approach to “Sprawl” reads like a mock propaganda piece for expansion. A variety of “Fences” are arranged by Max Havlicek in a fashion that conveys a wide range of response, from nostalgia to suffocation. Esteemed designer Ann Smolucha captivates the viewer with her visual dissertation on “Electricity”. Beth Johnson delivers the last suite in her interpretation of “Restitution”. She vandalizes the built world with seemingly simple images that suggest a more complex need for atonement. Sonneteer was conceived and produced by Doug Fogelson and designed by Russell Lord. The resulting collaboration is a 9” x 14” full color, perfect bound, 140-page book with essays by Russell Lord and Ingrid Rojas.
In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his new introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action. "[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."—Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History "A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."—James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States. Moving from theoretical concerns to empirical analysis, he focuses on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP. He concludes that political opportunities, a heightened sense of political efficacy, and the development of these three institutions played a central role in shaping the civil rights movement. In his new introduction, McAdam revisits the civil rights struggle in light of recent scholarship on social movement origins and collective action. "[A] first-rate analytical demonstration that the civil rights movement was the culmination of a long process of building institutions in the black community."--Raymond Wolters, Journal of American History "A fresh, rich, and dynamic model to explain the rise and decline of the black insurgency movement in the United States."--James W. Lamare, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Documents the dramatic and sometimes deadly competition between New York and Boston to build the first American subway, describing the rivalry between two brother subway engineers and their famous supporters.
This is a powerful new approach to marketing that will multiply the impact of every dollar invested. Comprehensive research by Doug Hall details marketing initiatives that will deliver sustained success. What makes this book's teaching more reliable and reproducible than others is its foundation on hard data reflecting customer, industrial, and business-to-business marketing, not ''guru opinions.'' After reading Jump Start Your Marketing Brain, readers will know how to more effectively and efficiently market and sell their brand, their services, their products, and even themselves!
This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export—the orange. From the 1870s onward, California oranges were packaged in crates bearing colorful images of an Edenic landscape. This book demystifies those lush images, revealing the orange as a manufactured product of the state's orange industry. Orange Empire brings together for the first time the full story of the orange industry—how growers, scientists, and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California, turning it into a factory for the production of millions of oranges. That industry put up billboards in cities across the nation and placed enticing pictures of sun-kissed fruits into nearly every American's home. It convinced Americans that oranges could be consumed as embodiments of pure nature and talismans of good health. But, as this book shows, the tables were turned during the Great Depression when Upton Sinclair, Carey McWilliams, Dorothea Lange, and John Steinbeck made the Orange Empire into a symbol of what was wrong with America's relationship to nature.
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