The Quiet Hours: City PhotographsU of Minnesota Press - 81 páginas A visual tribute to the industrial spaces and commercial interiors of Minnesota's prewar era. A milling district along the Mississippi River. A railroad bridge on Washington Avenue. Jim's Hamburgers in Duluth. A spiral staircase in the Schmidt Brewery. These are the spaces that capture the moods of Minnesota's prewar era. These are the everyday places where ordinary people lived and worked. These are the images that show us the remnants of a city's past. In The Quiet Hours, Mike Melman records a vanishing era of Minnesota's towns and cities through a series of seventy black-and-white photographs taken from 1985 to 2002. Working in the half-light of predawn hours, Melman brings a new perspective to familiar places, one shaped by his training as an architect and his particular affinity for old buildings. Melman's atmospheric photographs give us insight into the bygone life of a city where we had not thought to look for one before. In his essay, Bill Holm compares Melman's work to that of Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg, artists who embrace and celebrate the urban experience. Holm writes, "These photographs take us a long way toward an understanding of that mighty heart of a city. . . . These are very American pictures in their stubbornness, then integrity, and their dogged affection for the working-class life buried inside them." Through his artistic and historic images, Melman exposes the speed at which American cities change and presents a gritty yet contemplative portrait of urban Minnesota. |
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AKERLUND PHOTO STUDIO Alan Trachtenberg Alfred Stieglitz AVENUE BRIDGE AVENUE SOUTHEAST BANAN Baltimore OYSTERS beauty BILL HOLM BREWERY Bronx Brooklyn Bridge buildings and streetscapes BURLINGTON NORTHERN TRACKS CHOICE STEAK SALE CITIES OF SHADOW city eye COKATO COMMANDANT'S HOUSE Crossing Brooklyn Ferry deserted DULUTH EAST SEVENTH STREET Edward Hopper Essay by BILL Fact and Symbol FORD MOTOR COMPANY FOURTH STREET grain elevators heavy intentionally left blank JACKSON STREET ROUNDHOUSE JIM'S HAMBURGERS KNAVER'S MEAT MARKET LINE SHOREHAM YARDS Lloyd Goodrich LOW MILK PRICES LUTEFISK metaphor mighty heart Mike Melman MILWAUKEE ROAD MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI RIVER NORTHEAST MINNEAPOLIS painting PAUL photographs poem QUIET HOURS railroad yard ROBERT STREET BRIDGE romanticism SALE SHRIMP LOW SAMUELSON'S CONFECTIONERY Sandburg SELBY AVENUE seventy images SHADOW AND LIGHT SHRIMP LOW MILK SINCLAIR LEWIS SOO LINE SHOREHAM stairways STEAK SALE SHRIMP STEAM PLANT steel stone unpoetic subjects Walker Evans WASHINGTON AVENUE NORTH Whitman wife Lotte
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Página iv - Either in figure or in landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow. In short, I want to reach so far that people will say of my work : he feels deeply, he feels tenderly — notwithstanding my so-called roughness, perhaps even because of this.