From The Top Of A Grain Elevator

Author : Lisa Mahar-Keplinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grain Elevators written by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing collection of photographs and drawings, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger documents on of the most American of building types: the grain elevator, revealing them as symbols of the American collective unconscious. Winner of an AIA Book Award, Grain Elevators is a companion volume to Wood Burners.

Author : William J. Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578012618
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Colossus: The Grain Elevator, 1843 to 1943 written by William J. Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length history of the American grain elevator, from 1843 to 1943. Eight black and white illustrations, appendix, index, bibliography.

Author : Bernd Becher
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grain Elevators written by Bernd Becher and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These photographs of grain elevators in America, Germany, Belgium, and France are a major addition to the Bechers' ongoing documentation of the vanishing buildings that once defined the industrial landscape of Europe and America. Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes the most important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers. Grain elevators are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.

Author : Barbara Nickel
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780888783974
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Top of a Grain Elevator written by Barbara Nickel and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1999-04-16 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird's-eye view of the western landscape, nature's glorious playground. Nickel's experimental verses are perfectly complimented by Kathy Thiessen's black-and-white etchings, making this ideal for any young Canadian -- Prairie-dweller, would-be poet, or otherwise.

Author : Christine Hanlon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772761597
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grain Elevators written by Christine Hanlon and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising above the landscape, the grain elevator heralds a time when wheat was king across the West. At their zenith, 5,758 of these prairie giants defined the economy and skyline of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. While many still stand, every year their numbers dwindle. Sometimes these towering signposts are all that is left of a town or hamlet once built around them. In this stunning photo collection, award-winning photographer Chris Attrell captures the haunting presence of those that remain to stand guard over an ever-changing agrarian lifestyle.

Author : Frank Gohlke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measure of Emptiness written by Frank Gohlke and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is", said Gertude Stein. From the Midway area of Minneapolis to the prairie grasslands of Kansas, the American landscape is characterized by this spaciousness--and by the presence of windowless, rumbling, enormous grain elevators, rising above the steeples of churches to announce the presence of a town and to explain, in great measure, the function of its inhabitants. Why did their builders choose that particular form to fulfill a practical necessity? And how does the experience of great emptiness shape what people think, feel, and do? Frank Gohlke, one of America's foremost photographers of landscape, has pondered and documented the relationship between these enormous structures and the emptiness of the surrounding landscape for the past two decades. The result is this evocative sequence of images, beginning with Gohlke's earliest formal studies of structural fragments and their mechanisms, and gradually expanding to depict the grain elevator as a part of the landscape. His camera eventually retreats so far that the grain elevator disappears in the horizon, and only the landscape--the "space where nobody is"--is visible. Introducing the photographs is a personal essay by Gohlke on the relationship between people and their space, and the ways in which that relationship actually creates a landscape. A concluding historical essay by John C. Hudson details the development and function of the grain elevator and its geographical and economic role in American life.

Author : Barbara Kathleen Nickel
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613773959
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Top of a Grain Elevator written by Barbara Kathleen Nickel and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the CLA Book of the Year for Children, award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird's-eye view of the western landscape, nature's glorious playground. Following the slough cycle and the gradual metamorphosis of the land itself, Nickel animates both nature and the children who love to revel in its altered terrains. Nickel's experimental verses are perfectly complemented by Kathy Thiessen's black-and-white etchings, making this ideal for any young Canadian--Prairie-dweller, would-be poet, or otherwise.

Author : Kevin Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781777598846
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Grain Elevator Incident written by Kevin Miller and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hagstrum
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128104287
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Stored-Product Entomology written by David Hagstrum and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference discusses the fundamentals of stored-product entomology that need to be considered in planning, implementation, and evaluation of a pest management program. It is based on the review of an extensive database of references and many years of research on stored-product insect problems by the expert authors. The information in this book helps answer consumers’ concern about pesticide residues in food by providing helpful IPM and alternative approaches for pest management. It provides the basic information needed to manage pests with and without the use of chemicals. Managing pests requires a thorough understanding of insect biology, behavior, ecology, sampling, pros and cons of management options, and responses of insects to the various management options. This comprehensive book covers all of these topics, beginning with a discussion of the scope of stored-product entomology. It also provides insight into the diversity of foods and habitats utilized by stored-product insects, the types of economic losses attributable to them, and the ways in which an understanding of their biology can be used to study or manage these insects. Insect mobility, sources of insect infestation, sampling, life history, and population growth are discussed as well, as they play an important role in developing an effective sampling program. In addition, decision aids, the cost of management methods, and the resistance of insects to management methods are covered. For insight into the thought process of choosing treatment options, eight pest management methods are thoroughly described, including a statement of the basic operating principle and background information. For help choosing various chemical and nonchemical methods for diverse situations, the advantages, disadvantages and implementation options for each method are given. Students, extension educators, consultants, food industry sanitarians and managers, legislators, regulators, and insect pest management professionals are sure to find information that will help them to improve pest management. Study questions at the end of each chapter Suggested supplemental reading, including books, conference proceeding papers, literature reviews, research papers, government publications, and popular articles General overview of the biology for a basic understanding of pest control issues Guides the reader through the thought process of designing a pest control program or research study Images of the most damaging of stored-product insect pest species for identification of families Quick methods for distinguishing closely related stored-product insect species

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143846259X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Chartres written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture. On a visit to Buffalo, New York, the French poet Dominique Fourcade was awed by the huge concrete grain elevators that line the city’s river and lakefront. Turning to his guide, the poet Susan Howe, he exclaimed, “The American Chartres!” Taking Fourcade’s exclamation as its title, Bruce Jackson’s American Chartres documents Buffalo’s surviving grain elevators, capturing these monumental buildings in all seasons and in various light; from the Buffalo River, the Ship Canal, and Lake Erie; from inside and from the top floors and roofs; in detail and in toto. Invented in Buffalo by Robert Dunbar and Joseph Dart, the city’s first grain elevator went operational in 1843. By the mid-1850s, Buffalo was the world’s largest grain port, and would remain so well into the twentieth century. Grain elevators made Buffalo rich, and they were largely responsible for the development of the Port of New York. While primarily functional objects, designed to move grain from one transportation modality to another, grain elevators are also beautiful structures, and they exerted a profound influence on many twentieth-century architects. Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the Bauhaus, collected photographs of American grain elevators and published two of Buffalo’s elevators in 1913. The great Modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn came to Buffalo to photograph them in 1924, and they also influenced the practice of architects such as Le Corbusier and the Italian futurist Antonio Sant’Elia. More recently, the conceptual artists and photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher have included grain elevators in their documentation of industrial structures in Europe and North America. Despite their deep impact on twentieth-century architecture, Buffalo’s grain elevators remained underappreciated. As they outlived their economic usefulness, many were destroyed. Only recently have local residents realized what treasures they are. Beautifully illustrated with more than 160 color photographs, this book documents what remains. An accomplished author, photographer, and filmmaker, Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is also codirector of the university’s Creative Arts Initiative. His numerous books include Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons.