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The Quiet Hours : City Photographs by Mike Melman; Bill Holm; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Quiet Hours : City Photographs about?

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. . .

Who reads The Quiet Hours : City Photographs?

Author

Mike Melman; Bill Holm; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816643295

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Photography, Arts

Rating

4.06 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14