Ellis Island: Echoes from a Nation's Past - Hardcover

Hine, Lewis W.; Etc.

9780893813963: Ellis Island: Echoes from a Nation's Past

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ISBN 10: 0893813966 ISBN 13: 9780893813963

Publisher: Aperture, 2005

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Photographs, letters, and essays record the rise, decline, and restoration of Ellis Island

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About the Author:

Shirley C. Burden was a longtime supporter of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tokyo Museum, and other galleries and museums throughout the world. Photographer and author of God Is My Life (1960), I Wonder Why ... (1963), Behold Thy Mother (1965), Presence (1981), Chairs (1985), and The Many Faces of Mary (1989), Mr. Burden also taught photography at the Art Center College in Pasadena, California, from 1978 to 1987.

Charles Hagen is a photographer and writer. He has written on photography for the New York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, Camera Arts, and the Village Voice, and was formerly editor of the publications Afterimage and Aperture.

Paul Kinney was Museum Curator at the Statue of Liberty National Monument from 1980 to 1986. He has also served as Director of Development for the Staten Island Historical Society at the Richmondtown Restoration, Staten Island, New York.

Norman Kotker is the author of four novels: Billy in Love (1996), Learning About God (1988), Miss Rhode Island (1978), and Herzl the King (1972). He is also the author of numerous histories, among them, New England Past (1980), Massachusetts: A Pictorial History (1976), and The Earthly Jerusalem (1969). From 1960 to 1969 he was editor of Horizon Books for the American Heritage Publishing Company.

Robert Twombly teaches architectural history at The City College of New York and is the co-author of the book Toward an American Utopia: Social Thought, Iconography, and the Drawings of Louis Sullivan. He has also written Power and Style: A Critique of Twentieth-Century Architecture in the United States (1995), Louis Sullivan: The Public Papers (1988), Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work (1986), and Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture (1979).

Synopsis:

A photographic documentary of the peak years of immigration, and Ellis Island's subsequent decline and restoration. The rich, multi-ethnic history of America's most significant immigration point is portrayed in photographs spanning more than a century. Photographic contributors include Lewis Hine, Augustus Sherman, Edward Levick, Jerry Uelsman, Shirley C.Burden, Mariana Cook, Sylvia Plachy and Emmet Gowin. Ancestors of nearly half of all the people living in the United States today came to America through the immigration port of Ellis Island. Like the Statue of Liberty, the faces on Mt Rushmore, and the Golden Gate Bridge, Ellis Island has come to represent the expansive spirit of the nation, a symbol of its identity. In 1984, Ellis Island was closed to allow massive reconstruction. Now after a six-year hiatus, this entry point to America for more than twelve million immigrants between 1892 and 1954 will reopen to the public. More than 1.5 million people are expected to explore the new part in the first year.

The massive restoration of this historic site, scheduled to reopen in September, 1990, is being commemorated by Aperture with publication of this book of photographs and oral histories.

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