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Grain Elevators
Bernd Becher , and
Hilla Becher
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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Bernd and Hilla Becher's almost fifty-year collaboration constitutes the most important project in objective and conceptual photography today. With this volume, grain elevators join the list of building types documented by the Bechers in their book-length studies: water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, oil tanks, mineheads, frame houses, and cooling towers.
Grain elevators are towering structures in the flat, vast landscape of the world's granaries. Providing a fast and efficient method of loading and unloading grain to keep pace with the industrial production methods of the nineteenth century, they made possible a tremendous increase in the trafficking and processing of grain. Scooping, pouring, and spitting, they both illustrated and inspired Le Corbusier's idea of buildings as functioning machines. Monumental, essential, and visually arresting, grain elevators belong as much to the American imagination and landscape as to the European. The photographs of grain elevators in this volume were taken in Germany, Belgium, France, and America. But the specificity of time and place is erased in these photographs; the monolithic structures evoke the agricultural prosperity of a vanished era and the vacancy that replaces it today.
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As the twenty-first century marches forward, the country grain elevator rapidly nears extinction. These classic wooden structures once used to store grain are being torn down by the hundreds along with thousands of miles of railway branchlines. A proud and honored way of life is coming to end.
Wheat Kings is a lavishly illustrated and poignantly written look at the passing of the traditional northern prairie grain elevators and the communities and railcars that served them. The book includes photographs of grain elevators from numerous small prairie towns. Also included are images of the region's train stations, churches, farms and commercial buildings, many abandoned.
The book is organized by six concise essays. These include:
- Wheat Kings: brief history of grain elevators
- Of Peddlers, Pullers and Tramps: the prairie railroad system
- Something Big on the Horizon: concrete high-capacity super elevators
- McMahon - Hard Times on the Prairies: a forgotten town
- The Last Harvest: an elevator comes down
- Buffalo Bones: the end of the railroad grain cars.
Wheat Kings is a chronicle of the end of an era as witnessed by one of North America's best-known and most-respected railroad writers and photographers. This book is sure to fascinate railway enthusiasts, transportation historians, and anyone interested in the changing worlds of farming and railroading.
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Great photos.......2005-07-10
This is essentially a collection of very poignant photos, since many of the grain elevators will have been demolished by now. The praries will be a whole lot lonelier with their absence. The text is fairly short, but informative. If you love the prairies, you'll love this book.
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Calumet K.......2007-04-07
I liked the story myself. It's a little rusty to start, however that does interface somewhat with the goings on, in the story. I'd be interested in reading more works by these authors. I clearly see what was inspiring to Ayn, in this novel. If you like her work, it's worth checking out. It's a quick and easy read. Don't expect alot of plot twists, or a roller coaster ride. There are no big mysteries to get to the bottom of, in this story. With a little plot tweaking, it might make a good screenplay. I had a good time reading this. With an open mind, maybe you will too.
This is Ayn Rand's Favorite novel.......2005-11-16
The main character is the archetype hero and get things done guy that Ayn modeled many of her man as hero characters in Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. This book was originally published in 1901 and is more, I think, a character study than a plot driven novel. That's why I only give it four stars. Ayn said about the story herself, "It's style is staightforward and competent, but undistinguished. It lacks the most important ingredient of good fiction, a plot structure. But it has one element that I have never found in any other novel: the portrait of an efficacious man." Praise like that I think explains why Ayn didn't get a lot of requests for "blurbs" from other writers but hey that's Ayn and that's why we love her. I like the book because the hero, Charlie Bannon, is tasked to build a grain elvator and every time he runs across a problem that would make anybody else quit or drive them off the project he doesn't get upset or snivvel he just sticks to it and gets the job done. Read the book to find out what crap he has to put up with and how he solves things. It is inspiring whenever you have to get a gargantual task done and start to second guess yourself.
uninspired.......1999-10-03
Webster was a social novelist and this is (I believe) his second book. He wrote much better works later,including some fine mystery novels, and it is an awful shame that this is his only work that remains in print. Try to find a copy of JOSEPH GREER AND HIS DAUGHTER, or WHO IS THE NEXT? instead.
A story in which ability is what makes the hero........1998-08-31
Calumet "K" is not great literature; it is simply light popular fiction from 1901. But it is well worth reading nevertheless. Calumet "K" tells the story of how Charlie Bannon, the story's hero, attempts to complete construction of a Chicago grain elevator in the face of a series of hurdles that threaten to scuttle the project. How Bannon deals with these challenges will fill you with delight and admiration. But this story has a deeper significance. Bannon is presented as a hero because he is superbly competent. He is a man who can get things done in the face of unexpected challenges. He is also a man who loves his work. To Bannon, work is not just a job; it is a sacred calling. This exalted view of work is very rare in fiction -- the only other authors I know of who have captured it are Ayn Rand and, in some of his stories, Rudyard Kipling. Calumet "K" is worth reading for another reason: it gives a glimpse of the American sense of life of a century ago: the sense that the world is a benevolent place open to individual achievement, where competence is practical and is rewarded, and where men are free to achieve great things through their work. All of this is merely implicit; this is not a story of ideas. But the ideas it embodies are great.
Great example of its genre.......1998-08-26
Calumet K is one of many books that I classify as "hero novels", books that could be termed Hortio ALger for adults.
This short book is the story of one man's adventure in building one of the largest grain elevator's in the world. If you are an engineer or interested in the history of structures in the US this is a must read.
Put this on your shelf next to "Banker and Bear", "Cash McCall", and "The Fountainhead".
-RS
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In this astonishing collection of photographs and drawings, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger documents on of the most American of building types: the grain elevator, revealing them as symbols of the American collective unconscious. Winner of an AIA Book Award, Grain Elevators is a companion volume to Wood Burners.?
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Great Book.......1998-04-18
This is one of the best books that I have read about the American Grain elevator, after doing a lot of research on the topic. The book is a wealth of information on a subject that is not widely published.
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Sentinels. Guardians. Cathedrals. These are just some of the words used to describe the towering grain elevators still dotting Indiana's countryside. Join master photographer John Bower as he celebrates, in stunning black-and-white imagery, the majestic dignity of these vanishing agricultural icons along with small-town feed mills and picturesque grist mills. This latest book from Studio Indiana celebrates these magnificent, and vanishing, structures. At one time, nearly every Indiana town had a local grain elevator, or a feed mill. Towering above the landscape often taller than trees, church steeples, main street stores, and even some courthouses these stark, geometric buildings were the castles of the Hoosier heartland. Today, many of the smaller operations have been abandoned and stand forlornly in our midst.
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Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape)
Frank Gohlke
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Amazing Landscape Photographs.......2000-02-14
Frank Gohlke captures the landscape of mid-America like no other photographer has! You can see deep into the soul of farmland by looking at his photographs, which were taken with a large format camera.
Great Book.......1998-04-24
I did a lot of research about the American grain elevator. It was hard to come up with information that discussed aspects other than dust explosions and engineering. If you want to know about other aspects of the grain elevator, I would recomend this book. It also has great photographs!
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North American Grain Elevators 2007 Calendar
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The Art of Country Grain Elevators (Working Lives Series)
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Over forty fine photographs and forty pages of poems that get to the heart of working lives in the Midwest. //
With a focused and indefatigable passion, Bruce Selyem has been photographing the simple elegance of grain elevators within the context of austere rural landscapes for fifteen years. Grain elevators remain fascinating and treasured landmarks in many Western communities, arousing contemplation and even reverence as historic and aesthetic icons. These qualities are readily apparent in the quiet beauty and studied compositions of Selyem's photographs. - Ellen Ornitz, Visual Arts Director, The Emerson & Beall Park, Bozeman //These are poems that spring from the ground like fresh seed, but never without human references. And it is the human references, in country circumstances, that make them familiar and understandable to everyone….Whether he is writing about giving his father a haircut or questioning him about the Great Depression, Jon Volkmer knows farm-people intimately and describes them with bedrock wisdom in a world of tarpaper, boxcars, corn, propane tanks, drill bits, wooden elevators, concrete silos, flour mills, rats, ferrets and barn ladders. -Samuel Hazo
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A great book of poetry about what it means to be a son.......2006-05-15
This is a great book of images and poetry, ostensibly detailing the life of the midwestern farmer-- but, so much more than that, the son/father chronicle that works its way into every page. If you can read the introduction to this book without shedding a tear, please give your father a call and try to rediscover what's missing.
Volkmer has an uncanny instinct to capture more than just "the thing" (which, I think, all too oftens characterizes contemporary poetry, writers reticent to comment), but rather the psychological and emotional context for things-- not just things in time, but moments in time. And what makes this book particularly tragic is the obvious honesty that these moments cannot be, can never be, replayed.
The pictures work much the same way, but the words pull this work up from tired (but important) Time-Life photos of dust bowl hardships to the heart of soul of the relationships among man, son, machine and survival.
Bravo!
Extraordinary blend of poetry and photography.......2006-04-06
Two artists work from their hearts -- a photographer with an obvious love for the meanings and visual power of grain elevators, the other a poet whose graceful, plainspoken words brings to life the smells, the sweat, and the sentiments of the plains spirit.
Okay, that's too hokey by half, but this is a grand book. The poetry is great -- even the poet's foreword is a pleasure to read -- and the photographs show the beauty and variability, even personalities, of the tallest things on the prairies. Easily worth the price, for anyone who has a soft spot in their heart for these grand structures.
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Gone But Not Forgotten.......2006-11-10
This is local history. The writer is not accomplished. The book is precious in that it preserves the stories of people and a way of life - Canadians in the prairie provinces, chiefly in the 1930s - which are past. Whole communities, each of them centered on grain elevators, are gone. There is almost no way these people and these places could be visited save through the efforts the writer made to produce this volume.
A wistful and warmly written contribution .......2005-01-03
Gone But Not Forgotten is the true story of the history and modern disappearance of a daily facet of prairie agriculture and daily life. The simple wooden grain elevator functioned not only as a practical tool, but as a symbol of prosperity and stability for over a century. Black-and-white photographs illustrate the story of the grain elevator's widespread use, innovations to make it more effective, and its decline as agribusiness changed the way food is grown . A wistful and warmly written contribution to agarian memory and heritage, accurately commemorating the role of a once indispensible tool for small farmers.
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How to Use Oil Paints: Basic Techniques (Fine Arts Series)
Carla Van Spounteen
Manufacturer: David & Charles UK
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Read this book!.......2000-03-30
This book is so awsome! If you want to be an awsome painter than you should order this book! I garuntie that if you read this book through, and paint by its directions than you will be selling pictures like me! I just started out and couldn't paint in a square and I just sold my last painting for $5,000!
An awsome book! * * * * *.......2000-03-30
This book is awsome it taught me how to use oil paints and now I'm selling paintings! I heighly recamend buying this book if you want to get good at painting!
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