The birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago is noted for an architectural tradition that has influenced building around the globe Now the authoritative text on the subject is completely redesigned, revised, and expanded to bring the history up to date-with an all-new final chapter on the signature works of the last 20 years, up to and including Frank обянй Gehry's Millennium Park band shell, whose curling ribbons of stainless steel added a dazzling new facet to the city's skyline in July 2004 Some 300 photogr
Book DescriptionAn accessible, collectable book on Weegee First immigration American, Weegee (18991968) is the archetypal tabloid photographer of the twentieth century Preferring to photograph under the cover of night, he was known for his aggressive use of flash Weegees photographic eye was unstoppable: drawn to the grotesque, the обянн illicit, the illegal, Weegee delivered both harrowing and poignant photographs of crime scenes and criminals to New Yorks tabloid-reading public in the 1930s and 1940s Name
Book Description"To what extent can we love the developing American West? We know the urgency of that question because bitterness has sometimes made us exiles ~My first attempt to describe the region in a book (The New West, 1974) omitted pictures that might have helped I am grateful now to be able to reproduce them They record a geography that обяоа is still in some respects characteristic, one where we could do better but where the rest is faultless ~At about the time I took the pictures I read an intervi