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Drawn from more than a decade of roaming around Queens and snapping photos, Heathcott conveys the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the mundane and the surprising, and the staggering social diversity that best characterizes Queens. At the heart of the story are two separate but entwined histories: the rapid expansion of the borough's built environment through the twentieth century, and the millions of people who have traveled from near and far to call Queens home. Newcomers have had to confront discrimination, white racial hostility, legal challenges, and language barriers. They have had to struggle to find adequate housing, places to worship, and jobs that pay enough to survive. And they have done all of this in the borough's jumbled collection of neighborhoods, housing types, civic and religious institutions, factories and warehouses, commercial streets, and strip malls.  Heathcott makes primary use of documentary photography to bring these social and spatial realities of everyday life into relief. He also draws on demographic data, archival sources, planning documents, news stories, and reports. The result is a visual meditation on Queens that provides clues about an urban future where notions of citizenship and belonging are negotiated across multiple lines of difference, but where a sense of \"getting along\"—however roughly textured and unfinished—has taken hold in the everyday life of the streets.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51035229389073,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51035231944977,"sku":"NIN9781531504519","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1531504515.jpg?v=1750990564"},{"product_id":"mexico-city-unveiled-book-joseph-heathcott-9781839994470","title":"Mexico City Unveiled","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaptures the rich urban culture and everyday landscapes of Mexico City through photography, highlighting the interplay between tradition and modernity in its built environments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMexico City is the largest metropolis in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most populous places on earth. With some twenty million people spread out over three states, its political, economic, and cultural dominance remain unchallenged by any of the country's other cities. When we think of Mexico City, we tend to imagine it as vast, grandiose, frenetic, and vulnerable. And it is all of these things. However, in every nook and corner of the metropolitan expanse, a tangled patchwork of neighborhoods and communities has emerged over time, ordinary places that people call home.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is precisely the everyday life and landscape of these places that the present book explores. It uses photography to trace the rich urban culture and vernacular artistry of the city's residents as they continually create and adapt the built environments that surround them. The photographs have been selected from thousands taken by the author from around Mexico City. The images reveal a city that is at once deeply rooted in urban traditions stretching over many centuries, and at the same time transformed by the changing political and social forces of an independent nation, a revolutionary state, and the vicissitudes of a globalizing world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The book includes 150 photographs divided into eight sections, featuring a wide variety of spaces and places, from the canals of Xochimilco to the bustling shops of Santo Domingo, and from the towers of Tlatelolco to the quiet streets of Santa Maria La Ribera. The images explore the layered materialities, aesthetics, and social relations of the urban landscape, and the many ways that people have shaped and adapted the city to suit their needs. An introduction and detailed captions help the reader to interpret the patterns and routines unfolding in the images, and to build a sense of how this bewildering city hangs together from day to day. 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Largely led by Charles Clement Holt (1866-1925), St. Louis's photography operation expanded until it produced about six thousand images per year in 1914. Many of these photographs were lost, but a city historian salvaged a collection of three hundred glass plate negatives in the 1950s, which are now in the Missouri Historical Society collections. This small, but superb, group of photographs provides a wealth of information on the visual culture of St. Louis during a period of rapid transformation. \u003ci\u003eCapturing the City\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to examine these photographs, placing the people and landscapes depicted within the broader context of a swiftly urbanizing and industrializing metropolis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Collected and analyzed here by Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz, the compelling images in \u003ci\u003eCapturing the City\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the national trend among cities to use the camera as a documentary tool. 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