Diana Stuart (2)
Auteur de Designs Underfoot: The Art of Manhole Covers in New York City
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Diana Stuart is a photographer, writer, and New York City historian who is devoted to photographing her beloved native city. She has photographed extensively in all five boroughs. She conducts slide lecture programs and walking tours on a number of subjects for Cooper Union, the Municipal Art afficher plus Society, Society for Industrial Archaeology, The New-York Historical Society, and other historic organizations. Ms. Stuart regularly writes for The New York Chronicle afficher moins
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- Œuvres
- 2
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- 17
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- #654,391
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- 4.0
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- 1
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- 22
It details interesting, heavily decorated or idiosyncratic NYC coal chute, telegraph company, aqueduct, etc "man hole" covers. Listed in a nice vertical layout are: locations (seemingly most extensively covered in BKLN), details of their novelty, the functions of associated tunnels, biographies of their foundry owner makers.
It reads two ways. One is as a five star novelty guide to these nuanced iron crowns, their people and duties. The flipside view is that is a starting block for questions on the philosophy of (this book and its author's) being.… (plus d'informations)