The Lost Panoramas

The Lost Panoramas

Author: Richard Cahan

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780978545000

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With more than 150 never-before-published duotone images, taken between 1892 and 1930, this collection explores the history of the Chicago River and the impact its reversal had on the watershed all the way to the Mississippi River. Offering the most complete description available of the river reversal, the stories told here provide a better understanding as to how it was done and why it was necessary, as well as how the water from the Chicago River is treated. The photographs were pulled from a glass plate photo collection taken by the Sanitary District of Chicago.


Panoramas of Lost London

Panoramas of Lost London

Author: Philip Davies

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781909242920

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Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945


The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi

The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi

Author: John Francis McDermott

Publisher:

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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"The panorama was a ... newsreel travelogue documentary 'movie' all rolled into one long, long, pictorial canvas between two slowly revolving cylinders ... [to the] acccompaniment of explanatory narration by the panoramist, passed the great river, its banks and bluffs, its steamers and squatters' shacks, its hamlets and cities, from St. Paul to New Orleans." Dust jacket.


Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 5

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1040128971

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


Lost London 1870-1945

Lost London 1870-1945

Author: Philip H. Davies

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781909242272

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Described as a publishing phenomenon, Lost London transports the reader back in time with amazing and evocative photographs. For this revised edition another 16 pages and approximately 50 previously unpublished photographs have been added


The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

Author: Dr. David M. Wilson

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0316193585

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The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova expedition has been constructed out of Scott's own diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of 'Uncle Bill' Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting. Yet for the final, fateful months of their journey, the systematic imaging of this extraordinary scientific endeavor was left to Scott himself, trained by Ponting. In the face of extreme climactic conditions and technical challenges at the dawn of photography, Scott achieved an iconic series of images; breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological formations, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected and finally resurrected, Scott's final photographs are here collected, accurately attributed and catalogued for the first time: a new dimension to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age and a humbling testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.


Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 1

Panoramas, 1787–1900 Vol 1

Author: Laurie Garrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 1040128963

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The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.


The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Author: Josh Sapan

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616891657

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At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the "strange and compelling medium" of panoramic group photography. Organizations famed and obscure—from the Anti-Saloon League of America and the troops at Camp Sevier during the Great War to the members of the Midget Swing Review—commissioned photographers to produce images that sometimes encompassed a full 360 degrees. No public event—a circus, a train wreck, or the Army-Navy football game—was too grand or eccentric to deserve its own wide-angle commemoration. The photographs compose a portrait of a society on the cusp of sweeping change, as their details preserve the enduring humanity of their subjects: a bathing beauty tosses her curls; a group of cross-dressing women smile enigmatically at an off-camera friend; children at play on a summertime lawn appear only as blurs behind an Ohio town meeting. The Big Picture gathers nearly one hundred of these fascinating images, most never before published, bringing the shared experience of American history from the late nineteenth century to the WWII era to life.


William and the Lost Spirit

William and the Lost Spirit

Author: Gwen de Bonneval

Publisher: Graphic Universe& 8482

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0761385673

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"In this graphic novel that combines medieval legends and folklore, the brutish feudal world, and devotion to family, William, the grandson of an elderly feudal lord in the thirteenth century, sets out on a labyrinthine journey to discover his father's killer"--Provided by publisher.


Frantic Panoramas

Frantic Panoramas

Author: Nancy Bentley

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780812241747

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Bentley offers close readings of [William Dean Howells, Henry James] and other writers such as Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin to demonstrate how leading artists took inspiration from commercial culture to create new and distinct literary forms.--From book jacket.