Silent Cities

Author : Jeffrey H. Loria
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510767274
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Cities written by Jeffrey H. Loria and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, recognizable look at life on lockdown and the effect the coronavirus pandemic had across the world—because every city had a story to tell, and at the end of it all, we were all in it together. In the past year, hospitals filled, highways and subways emptied, landmarks and parks were deserted, our healthcare workers became increasingly fatigued and frustrated, and nearly all human activity paused. In photographs, The Great Wall and The Colosseum look photoshopped, with no tourists in sight. This book is unique in that it creates a visual narrative to document that emptiness as a way to reflect and to find solace amid the shock. A year later, it's something we've all seen and can relate to. This is a stunning collection of the abandoned and austere sights of fifteen major cities throughout the world during the peak outbreak of COVID-19. With their fine art backgrounds and through their network of professional photographers, Julie and Jeffrey Loria worked together to capture the unprecedented lockdown conditions worldwide. The photos show a range of emotions from the physical and psychological weight of caskets being carried to a Rio cemetery, to the completely empty and eerie Times Square and Rodeo Drive, to the patriotic pride in Rome's t-shirt display honoring their Italian flag colors as a symbol of hope. The photographs are not only a reminder of the harrowing pandemic that hushed some of the world’s greatest urban streets, but also proof that across the globe, we were all in this together. Beneath the somberness in these images, there is a hint of beauty amid the stillness, but most of all, there is the presence of hope and promise that we will thrive again. Cities featured include: New York Jerusalem Boston Tokyo Paris Los Angeles Rome Rio de Janeiro San Francisco Washington, DC London Miami Tel Aviv Madrid Chicago

Author : Jessica Ferri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493047353
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Cities New York written by Jessica Ferri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorkers have always been pressed for space in life and in death. Central Park is synonymous with New York City. But without Green-Wood Cemetery, located in South Brooklyn, Central Park would have never existed. Founded in 1838, Green-Wood became the city’s most popular tourist attraction. The cemetery was so popular that urban planners challenged architects to come up with plans for a separate green-space for Manhattan. Hence, both Central Park, founded in 1857, and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, in 1867, were born. Green-Wood presented not only a place to bury the dead but a meditative haven away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Other cemeteries followed in the park style, including Sleepy Hollow and Woodlawn. New York’s changing cultural landscape made Ferncliff Cemetery one of the most coveted places to spend eternity, with the rising popularity of Westchester County and suburban living. New Yorkers even secured a place for the four-legged members of the family with Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, now the largest and oldest pet cemetery in the United States. From the movers and shakers of New York society, to corrupt political bosses and mafiosi, Jazz legends, and a Brooklyn native son who returned to Green-Wood as one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, the stories of the permanent residents of these cemeteries are just as diverse and vibrant as the city itself. To travel through the cemeteries of New York is to travel through the hidden history of what some consider to be the greatest city in the world.

Author : Jessica Ferri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493056476
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Cities San Francisco written by Jessica Ferri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914, desperate for land after the Gold Rush brought a population explosion to San Francisco, the city exiled its cemeteries, barring burials within city limits and relocating its existing graveyards to the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, spawning America's only necropolis, where the dead outnumber the living 1000 to 1. But there's more to the story of the Bay Area's cemeteries than this expulsion. Silent Cities San Francisco reveals the complex cultural makeup of the Bay Area, where diversity and history collide, pitting the dead against the living in a race for space and memorialization.

Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Cities written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban historian Kenneth Jackson (The Encyclopedia of New York) and photographer Camilo Vergara collaborate to present a fascinating and beautiful examination of the American cemetery.

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Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 : 9783958296558
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mat Hennek: Silent Cities written by and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silent Cities presents Mat Hennek's portraits of some of the world's great cities-from New York, Los Angeles and London, to Tokyo, Munich and Abu Dhabi-yet all curiously lacking people. Conceived and constructed by man as vessels for human activity, these metropolises are transformed by Hennek into monuments of silence: empty, some-times eerie sites for rituals of work and recreation that are yet to take place. Whether the shimmering windows of a Dallas office building, a lush Hong Kong garden of palms, blooms and fountains, the famed pastel terraced facades of Monaco, or rows of trolleys outside the concrete bulk of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, Hennek's pictures demonstrate a consistent formal rigor and recast familiar environments as new sources for focus and reflection.His photographs [...] collect so many elements that they have the power of mandalas, representing the universe in a fragment, and provoking a state of pure contemplation: in the simple experience of gazing, everything becomes pure. Laureline Amanieux

Author : Joseph Hergesheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quiet Cities written by Joseph Hergesheimer and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Cities written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban historian Kenneth Jackson (The Encyclopedia of New York) and photographer Camilo Vergara collaborate to present a fascinating and beautiful examination of the American cemetery.

Author : Elizabeth Albert
Publisher : Damiani Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788862085007
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City's Forgotten Waterfront written by Elizabeth Albert and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of ten chapters centers on one of New York City’s lesser-known waterfront spaces: Dead Horse Bay, where the pre-automobile city’s legions of horses once met their maker; Hart Island, New York City’s still-active potter’s field, where over 800,000 of New York City’s unclaimed dead have been laid to rest; Sandy Ground, one of the earliest free black communities in the nation, made prosperous through oystering and strawberry farming.--Publisher's website.

Author : Kate McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Centennial Gleanings ... written by Kate McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book The Office Economist written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: