Journey's End: Relics and Ruins of Indiana's Transportation Legacy - Brossura

Bower, John; Bower, Lynn

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ISBN 10: 0974518654 ISBN 13: 9780974518657

Casa editrice: Studio Indiana, 2009

Riassunto

The motto, "Crossroads of America," implies that there’s a lot in Indiana having to do with transportation. And there is—as Hoosier photographer John Bower discovered while crisscrossing the state in search of an extensive, culturally influential, transportation heritage. The result, Journey's End: Relics and ruins of Indiana's transportation legacy, showcases forlorn and rusting steam locomotives, diesel engines, automobiles, trucks, interurbans, and towboats—as well as crumbling infrastructure, factories, and garages. These are all rapidly disappearing objects and places from our collective past that have helped defined us as a state, and as a people.Journey's End is a book filled with emotional portraits of once gleaming, but now rusted, vehicles abandoned along fence rows, lonely depots adjacent to trackless railroad grades, and defunct service stations whose retired pumps offer gas at 31¢ a gallon. These are images that will spark transportation memories in everyone who sees them—of those Sunday drives to Grandma's, interminable waits at railroad crossings hoping for the arrival of a caboose, a first airplane flight, a first car, or the long bus rides to school. These stunning images are iconic reminders of where we have come from—and the means of transport we took along the way.

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L'autore:

John Bower’s black-and-white photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Indiana. With a reputation for capturing the essence and poignancy of the state’s unique cultural heritage, his work has been featured in scores of publications. Recognizing the merit of his artistic accomplishments, the Indiana Arts Commission has awarded Bower three Individual Artist Grants and, in 2008, he was named an Indiana Artisan. Journey’s End is his sixth Indiana photography book.

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“The Crosswords of America” is a fitting motto for the Hoosier state. For here, thousands of miles of roads, rails, canals, lake frontage, rivers, and runways have allowed people and products to move from one corner of Indiana to another—and beyond. No wonder Hoosiers have so many transportation memories—those long school-bus rides, Sunday drives to Grandma’s, a first glimpse of an arching river bridge, endless railroad-crossing waits, watching the slow churning progress of a tow boat with its string of barges, a first airplane flight, steady paychecks from a local auto plant, or the lonely departure from a Greyhound station. Each compelling photograph in this remarkable collection will trigger such reminiscences—some pleasant, some sad, but all special.

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• Editore: Studio Indiana
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0974518654
• ISBN 13: 9780974518657
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 144