Institutional: Photographs of Jails, Schools, and other Chicago Buildings (Center for American Places-Center Books on American Places)

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They are places we fear to tread, monuments to the principles of our forebears, awe-inspiring towers of achievement: public institutions that sustain and support our lives are all around us. Scott Fortino investigates these enduring pillars of public life in Institutional, a striking visual essay that documents the diverse architectural structures that house the foundations of civic life in the city of Chicago. From schools to churches to prisons, Fortino transforms these worn, familiar edifices into compelling symbols of long-lost ideals and communitarian spirit. Fortino coaxes out the subtle warmth and depths of these often overwhelming and pitiless public spaces in his photographs, as his camera reveals the hidden characters of both high-profile works by renowned designers such as Rem Koolhaas, Helmut Jahn, and Mies van der Rohe as well as the stolid structures designed by long-forgotten architects. Light, color, and composition work together in Fortino's images to produce provocative new perspectives on the interiors of public buildings, revealing how their cultural and social roles as places of worship, education, punishment, or entertainment cast long and complex shadows over our lives.Fortino challenges us in Institutional to rethink our view of the public spaces we pass through every day by offering an original and fascinating photographic study of the settings in which the important events of human life unfold.

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An annual compilation of award-winning advertising from around the world. The volume contains the finalists and World Medalists recipients from the 2004 New York Festivals International Print Advertising & Design Awards, The Global Awards for healthcare communications, and The International Midas Awards for financial communications; featuring a cornucopia of print and collateral from magazine, newspaper & outdoor to package design, promotions marketing and specialty advertising.

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Accompanying a unique exhibition at the respected Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, this book is a remarkable combination of the work of poets and artists, that explores in new ways the relationship between the visual and the verbal. In his preface, Charles Bernstein writes: "Not words and pictures but poems as visual objects. Not poems about pictures but pictures that are poems. Not works closed in a book but hanging on a wall or suspended from the ceiling or rising from the floor or sounding from inside a figure or embedded with paint on a canvas or written in the sky or flickering on a screen." Co-curator Jay Sanders explains in his introduction: "We had a gallery and we wanted to flood it with poetry. Not with "poetic" artwork, but with actual poetry, made by poets. But, we have gallery walls, not pages in a book. So we organized a show of art overrun with poetry and a show of poetry riddled with art."

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Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia) (One Work)
Rachel Moore
Manufacturer: Afterall Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1846380014

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In his 1971 short film, (nostalgia) , American artist and writer Hollis Frampton oveturned the conventional narrative roles of words and images. In his account of an artists's transformation from photographer to filmmaker, Frampton burns photographs he had taken and selected from his past along with one found photograph. A calm voice tells a story about an image, but the story is about the following image, not the one shown. Confounding comprehension still further, the narration begins and ends during the photograph's combustion; smoke and ashes get in our eyes while we are trying to make sense of the image and the narration--trying to remember the story that fits the image, trying to remember the image that fits the story...

Frampton's (nostalgia) is a formal masterpiece, long overlooked and understudied. It emerges from a body of film work that is rarely screened, the prints damaged and difficult to locate. Frampton's work is valued in artist filmmaking and film theory circles, but it has never taken its rightful place at the heart of modern art theory. This study will introduce a new generation to a critical moment in art history--when (nostalgia) confirmed both the essence and fragility of cinema itself.

Afterall Books are distributed by The MIT Press.

Hollis Frampton, Recollections/Recreations

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Hollis Frampton, Recollections/Recreations
Bruce Jenkins
Manufacturer: MIT Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0262100304

Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990

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Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990
James Blue , Tony Conrad , Hollis Frampton , Gerald O'Grady , Paul Sharits , and Steina
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262720507

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Twentieth-century art history is not just a history of individuals, but of collectives, groups. Universities and colleges have had much to do with this through their support of artistic communities and creative interactions. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Bauhaus was known for this. In the 1940s, Black Mountain College became a leader in community-based visual art practice and education. And in the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo was the place to be. It was there, in 1973, well before any other university had a program explicitly devoted to media art, that Gerald O'Grady founded a media study program that is now legendary. Artists--including avant-garde filmmakers Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, and Paul Sharits, documentary maker James Blue, video artists Woody Vasulka and Steina, and Viennese action artist Peter Weibel--investigated, taught, and made media art in all forms, and founded the first Digital Arts Laboratory. These Buffalo faculty members were not just practicing artists, but also theorists who wrote and spoke on issues raised by their work. They set the terms for the development of media art and paved the way for the triumph of video installation art in the 1990s.

The images and texts in Buffalo Heads bear witness to the groundbreaking events at the Buffalo Center for Media Study. The book presents not just a tribute to a famous media department finally receiving its due; it is a rich inventory of primary texts (many never before published), works that will improve our understanding of media, amplify our cultural memory, and offer a perspective on contemporary issues.

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James Blue, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, Gerald O'Grady, Paul Sharits, Steina, Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel

Biography - Frampton, Hollis (1936-1984): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

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Biography - Frampton, Hollis (1936-1984): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online
Gale Reference Team
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0007SBRCA
Release Date: 2007-06-13

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Word count: 1060.

Searing memories.(Hollis Frampton: (Nostalgia))(Book review): An article from: Afterimage

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Searing memories.(Hollis Frampton: (Nostalgia))(Book review): An article from: Afterimage
Jill Conner
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000MLWVM2
Release Date: 2007-01-10

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This digital document is an article from Afterimage, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1054 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Searing memories.(Hollis Frampton: (Nostalgia))(Book review)
Author: Jill Conner
Publication: Afterimage (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34 Issue: 3 Page: 45(2)

Article Type: Book review

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Carl Andre-Hollis Frampton, Twelve Dialogues, 1962-1963 (Nova Scotia Series (Halifax, N.S.).)

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Carl Andre-Hollis Frampton, Twelve Dialogues, 1962-1963 (Nova Scotia Series (Halifax, N.S.).)

Manufacturer: New York University Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0814705790

Circles of Confusion: Film Photography Video Texts 1968 1980

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Circles of Confusion: Film Photography Video Texts 1968 1980
Hollis Frampton
Manufacturer: Visual Studies Workshop Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0898220203

The films of Hollis Frampton: A critical study

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The films of Hollis Frampton: A critical study
Bruce Jenkins
Manufacturer: Northwestern University
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B00070US8W

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Frampton Hollis
Jean-Michel Bouhours , and Anette Michelson
Manufacturer: Centre Georges Pompidou Service Commercial,France
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ASIN: 2858509514

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Though Charles Barsotti may seem like the quintessential New Yorker cartoonist--droll punch lines underlining clean, spare drawings--his career has in fact been remarkably varied, encompassing everything from just-this-side-of-cutesy doodles for Hallmark to brash one-liners for Playboy. The Essential Charles Barsotti also takes the reader through his stint at The Saturday Evening Post and even a failed run at the United States Congress. Barsotti proves himself to be refreshingly versatile, equally adept at turning out surreal, one-panel cartoons and longer, text-based pieces. Particularly good is a quietly subversive parody of civil defense posters that deals with the proper techniques for spotting enemy dirigibles ("A: LOOK UP"). Barsotti himself proves to be as interesting as his cartoons--through interviews interspersed throughout the book, he emerges as a stand-up guy, able to maintain his principles without losing his sense of humor. --Ali Davis

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Cartoonists are finally getting their due. Compiled and edited by Lee Lorenz, former art editor of The New Yorker and an acclaimed cartoonist in his own right, The Essential Cartoonists library is a celebration of this unique visual art form. Each volume focuses on one truly outstanding artist and features approximately 150 of the artist's best cartoons, as well as insight into background, influences, inspirations, working habits, and more. Launching the series: The Essential George Booth and The Essential Charles Barsotti. Charles Barsotti is also a 30-year veteran of The New Yorker, and in Barsotti Lorenz presents an overview of this signature cartoonist whose rounded, elegant, sparsely detailed style evokes both the traditional world of a Thurber and the contemporary sensibility of a Roz Chast. With his simple repertory--including a nameless but lovable pooch and a monarch whose kingdom consists of a guard and a telephone--Barsotti manages to miraculously dissipate the clouds in people's minds with his unexpected humor.

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Great, hilarious collection of works!.......2000-06-14

In a nutshell, this book had me cracking up non-stop! I read it on a trip to Europe. My plan was to sleep on the plane. I should have never brought this book then! It kept me up and kept a smile on my face. My neighbors all asked what I was reading, and I shared the book with them. It is GREAT!

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Written by noted academics and public administration practitioners, this anthology covers the management of public information technology, focusing on its politics, organizational change, policy evolution, investment management, access, privacy and other administrative issues. Additional topics include technology diffusion, control systems, data analysis, geographic information systems, agency websites, online research and more. Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends constitutes a survey of many of the most important dimensions of managing information technology in the public sector. In Part I, chapters address general policy and administrative issues. The chapters of Part II represent applied information technology skills needed by public managers. Together, the chapters of this book make a contribution toward the knowledge and competencies needed by researchers and practitioners in this field.

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Information technology.......2000-12-04

It is a book based on the experience of professionals envolved with the information technology. The articles in the book do not have considerable theoretical information. So I recommend it to people who want to grasp a very, but rather well done, practical use of information technology in the public administration.

Selected this text for my graduate IT in PubAdmin class.......2000-10-20

I teach a graduate class in Information Technology in the Public Sector, in the M.S. in Public Administration program at a major university in southern California. I selected this text for my class because there are so few that cover as much territory in a text appropriate for non-technical majors. This text does a very good job of describing for current and future public managers many of the issues related to implementing and enhancing IT in public agencies and non-profits organizations. While at times, some of the articles lean a bit too much toward statistical research, overall this is an excellent text for a graduate Public Administration course. It covers the political dimensions of IT implementation, strategic planning for IT, cases studies of cities that are leading edge technology adopters, some basics of WWW implications for agencies, and a nice article on GIS. Considering the somewhat high cost, my only big complaint is that I wish it had also discussed in depth IT ethics for public managers, so that I would not have had to make students buy a second text for the class.

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Good Book to start

What 's a synonym for "incredible"?

Opening Doors : Selling to Multicultural Real Estate Custome

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Opening Doors : Selling to Multicultural Real Estate Customers
Michael D. Lee
Manufacturer: OakHill Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1886939322

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Good Book to start.......2007-01-30

The author gives a good introduction to the different ethnic groups in the US today. Differences cultures and approaches are discussed however I found certain mistakes (basically for the Hispanic segment). He generalized most of the population,, maybe it wasnt his intention but it's true. However, it is a good book for newbies. It helps you in you already are in the real estate business dealing with emerging markets today. I recommend it.

What 's a synonym for "incredible"?.......2003-02-15

I'm an emotional intelligence coach with an international clientele, not a realtor, but this book helped me tremendously. I would recommend it to anyone with a multicultural clientele or consumer-base. Concisely, and with great empathy, Mr. Lee describes cultures in a way that saves you reading tons of others books to get the same information. It saved me a lot of grief as I coached my first Pakistani client to know the difference between Pakistani and Indian, and explained to me why clients from certain cultures never seem to quit negotiating. Since emotional intelligence involves social skills, relating and empathy, it's crucial that I have a working-knowledge of how other cultures differ. One culture's "love of negotiating" is another culture's "pushy." One culture's "affiliative" is another culture's "not-sticking-to-business." And now I know not to cross my legs with a Middle-Eastern client. It's broadly applicable. If you have an international clientele, or do business on the Internet, you can't afford not to read this book. Really outstanding.

Opening Doors : Selling to Multicultural Real Estate Custome.......2000-05-20

This is an incredible book to read, well worth your time and money.

The author goes into detail of what makes the various ethnic groups unique and how you can apply this knowledge to being able to deal with your clients and customers most effectively.

I would highly recommend this to anyone that would like to be more knowledgable about other cultures and their ways of life.

Unique and valuable information.......1999-11-28

This is a well-researched and insightful book for anyone in real estate, related fields or home sellers who find themselves doing business with buyers from outside the American culture. This book helps you understand people from other cultures and their beliefs as they relate to real estate. The author not only explains what multicultural people do differently but also the reasons behind their unique practices and superstitions.

I found the sections on beliefs and negotiation to be particularly valuable. I always wondered why some groups continued to negotiate after a purchase contract had been signed or which were lucky addresses -- now I know.

Also, the background information on people from Asia, Mexico, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe was extremely enlightening. Get this book if you have any contact with people from other cultures - it will save you not only time but frustration as well. It could also be useful reading for people in industries outside real estate which do business with other cultures.

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Good For You.......2006-10-15

I wish I had a role model sit down with me when I was a young man and do something like this book with me. Now I am a young father trying to raise a son on my own because I tried to build a relationship on sex. I knew every fact and statistic there was and every one of them flies out the window when you are not morally grounded. Setting us "free" to our sexuality is the reason that divorce rates and diseases are climbing through the roof. Praise God I didnt catch an STD but many friends did. If your book changes one young persons life then it should be applauded. These comments from people that are educated beyond their intellect show why our nation is falling apart at the schools. My heart aches for the pain I have caused many women and for the pain many others will incur because of this attitude. The men also that try to do the right thing and still lose. Of all the pain and loss and mistakes in my life the only regret I have is that I did not wait until marriage. Sex is for a husband and a wife, period.

No Sex and the Teenager.......2006-08-17

In these modern times, books that promote abstinence are irrelevant to teenagers. Teens who are developing relationships need advice to keep them safe from the inevitable consequences of intimacy, not religion based abstinence. If the point of this book is to steer teenagers into early marriage before developing maturity and the skills to promote lasting relationships, the divorce rate, single parent rate and STD rate will continue to be unacceptably high.

What did they do to deserve this?.......2006-08-12

What have the youth of America do to deserve this weak, uninformed, factless, baseless attack on their self image and sexuality. I am completely against the idea of book-burning, but the entrie print run on this one should be reserved for use as ballast when sand is running low for filling sandbags.

Teach decision making, not guilt!.......2006-08-09

In a world where teens are exposed to a lot of sexual information and sexual stimulation, it does not help to attempt to control their behavior by preaching morality and attempting to instill guilt and shame. Early sex-negative indoctrination is not easily reversed and can impact later adult sexual relationships.

Books for teens should focus on responsible decision making, realistic appraisal of consequences, and endorsement of freedom to be naturally curious. Sexual feelings are not immoral, sexual thoughts are not sinful, and all informed sexual options should be carefully considered.

Sex and the Teenager .......2006-08-02

This is just another outdated abstinence book. Teenagers deserve more. They deserve honest relevance, not moralizing. They deserve sex positive treatments that relate to who they are and how they behave. This is totally irrelevant to today's teenagers, who are sexually active.

El Sexo Y El Adolescente/ Sex and The Teenager: Elecciones Y Decisiones/ Choices and Decisions

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El Sexo Y El Adolescente/ Sex and The Teenager: Elecciones Y Decisiones/ Choices and Decisions
Kieran Sawyer
Manufacturer: Panorama Mexico
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Human Sexuality: Responsible Life Choices

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Human Sexuality: Responsible Life Choices
Verdene Ryder , and Peggy B. Smith
Manufacturer: Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
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ASIN: 1566374553

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The most decorated solder in World War I was not Sergeant Alvin York, as many believe, but a stretcher bearer named Charles Denver Barger. And Barger is just one of the legion of military medical personnel whose lifesaving feats are remembered in this inspiring volume. A tribute to those who tend the sick and wounded under the toughest conditions, Doc is made up of the sometimes humorous, often harrowing, and always heartfelt memoirs of quick-thinking medics and heroic nurses, of surgeons and physicians equipped with only the tools of mercy, performing acts of great courage. Here too are the stories of those whose lives were saved as the indefatigable "Doc" braved battle and the elements on Omaha Beach and in Da Nang, on Okinawa and in Korea to treat a shrapnel wound or a napalm burn orin one remarkable casegive lifesaving instructions to the wounded despite his own fatal injury. Recounted by privates and generals from World War I to Iraq, these stories all have one thing in common: they inspire with the raw truth of men and women working under the greatest stress imaginable to bring their comrades safely home.

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An inspiring and personal history.......2006-02-09

From the very start, the first person accounts of war in Mark Littleton and Chuck Wright's "DOC" bring you immediately into the experiences of life and death in the battles fought by American sons and daughters since World War I. Each account from a medic or from one of the countless souls saved by a medic on some foreign shore reminds you of the millions of soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen who have put themselves in harm's way to defend our precious way of life. From Marine Jerry Jolly's quest to find the corpsman who saved his life in Korea to Wheeler Lipes' courageous performance of an emergency appendectomy in the austere conditions of a USN submarine on patrol, these stories will stir your heart. The medics, corpsmen, and nurses measure up admirably, facing horrifying injuries and using their determination and ingenuity to save lives and comfort the injured as best they can in the chaos of combat. As an Air Force surgeon, this book demonstrated to me the fine tradition of American military wartime medical care preceding me and the large footsteps I have to fill.

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Children from six to twelve are introduced to the most frequently seen and interesting Texas birds. Youngsters can color eye-catching line drawings of various birds in typical habitats, while an easy-to-read text gives important facts about the birds, and several fun games are instructive and challenging.

LEARN ABOUT...TEXAS BIRDS. A LEARNING AND ACTIVITY BOOK.

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LEARN ABOUT...TEXAS BIRDS. A LEARNING AND ACTIVITY BOOK.
M. Lockwood
Manufacturer: Texas Parks & Wildlife Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000WPKAPS

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