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Calendars of America: The
1964-1965 New York World's Fair (2009)
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair 2010 Calendar
is based on the best-selling Arcadia Publishing title Images of
America: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. The 1964-1965 New York
World's Fair was the largest international ever built in the United
States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six
hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the
Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered
visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the
official theme: Peace through Understanding.
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Images of
America: The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair (2009) -
My latest book is on what many feel was the most impressive world's fair
ever held. It includes 219 vintage photographs, most of which have never
been published before. Published by Arcadia Publishing as part of their
"Images of America" series, the book is due to be released on June 15, 2009 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Fair. It will be available at major booksellers such as Amazon,
Barnes & Noble, etc. and will also be sold through this site. Please e-mail
me if you have any questions about it.
Here's Arcadia's description of the
book: After enduring 10 harrowing years of the Great Depression, visitors
to the 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair found welcome relief in the fair’s
optimistic presentation of the “World of Tomorrow.” Pavilions from
America’s largest corporations and dozens of countries were spread across
a 1,216-acre site, showcasing the latest industrial marvels and
predictions for the future intermingled with cultural displays from around
the world. Well known for its theme structures, the Trylon and Perisphere,
the fair was an intriguing mixture of technology, science, architecture,
showmanship, and politics. Proclaimed by many as the most memorable
world’s fair ever held, it predicted wonderful times were ahead for the
world even as the clouds of war were gathering. Through vintage
photographs, most never published before, The 1939–1940 New York World’s
Fair recaptures those days when the eyes of the world were on New York and
on the future.
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Images of
America: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair (2004)
Co-written with Bill YoungReleased in
2004 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Fair, this book is a
collection of vintage and modern photographs that celebrate the creation,
life and legacy of the Fair. I am proud to have co-written it with Bill
Young, creator of the popular www.nywf64.com
website.
From Amazon: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest
international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one
hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six
acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar
Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a
refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme:
Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a
display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater
hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's
popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than
fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in
1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this
event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
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through my worldsfairphotos.com site.
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Images of
America: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair - Creation and Legacy (2008)
Co-written with Bill Young
The success of the 2004 book led to this sequel. While the first volume provided a general overview of the
Fair, there just wasn't enough room to tell the whole story. This volume
looks at how the Fair was conceived and built, changes made over the years,
the demolition process and where remnants can be found today.
From Amazon: When the gates of the 1964–1965 New York World’s
Fair swung open on April 24, 1964, the first of more than 51 million lucky
visitors entered, ready to witness the cutting edge of worldwide
technology and progress. Faced with a disappointing lack of foreign
participants due to political contention, the fair instead showcased the
best of American industry and science. While multimillion-dollar pavilions
predicted colonies on the moon and hotels under the ocean, other
forecasts, such as the promises of computer technology, have surpassed
even the most optimistic predictions of the fair. The 1964–1965 New York
World’s Fair: Creation and Legacy uses rare, previously unpublished
photographs to examine the creation of the fair and the legacies left
behind for future generations.
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Images of
America: The 1984 New Orleans World's Fair (2009)
I am pleased to be the author of the first comprehensive book on the fair.
It includes rare photos of the design and construction phases of the project
as well as an extensive collection of photographs from the fair's pavilions
and shows. I was thrilled to gain the cooperation of many of those
originally responsible for the fair and included their memories and thoughts
along with research from a number of archival sources.
From Amazon: In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last
world’s fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious
effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establish New
Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of
political intrigue and design changes before the gates finally opened.
Stretching 84 acres along the Mississippi River, the fair entertained more
than seven million guests with a colorful collection of pavilions, rides,
and restaurants during its six-month run. While most world’s fairs lose
money, the 1984 New Orleans World’s Fair had the dubious distinction of
going bankrupt and almost closing early. However, the $350-million
investment did succeed in bringing new life to the area, which is now home
to the city’s convention center and a bustling arts district.
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Historic
Canada: Vancouver's Expo 86 (coming in 2009)
My next book is a look back at Expo 86, the last
world's fair held in North America. Expo 86 has long been one of my favorite
fairs and I'm thrilled to be able to share my collection of photographs from
a great summer. I'm writing the book now and it will be out later this year.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.
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Postcards of
America: The 1984 New Orleans World's Fair (2009)
Released in conjunction with the Images of America book,
this set of 15 postcards features some of the best views of the fair.
Published by Arcadia Publishing as part of their "Images of America" series.
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I either wrote material for these books or was
interviewed by the authors. All descriptions are from Amazon.com unless
otherwise noted. Titles with clickable links will open a new window for that
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Dichtbij klopt
het hart der wereld - Nederland Op De Expo 58
(Nearby is the heart of the world - Netherland on Expo 58)
by André Koch, Marjonne van Dijk, Sylvia van Schaik, Peter Wever (2008)
This history of Expo 58 was
released in the Nederlands and thus is written in Dutch. Here's a
translation of one description:
Fifty years ago housed the
Brussels Expo'58, the first post-war world exhibition. Despite the cold
war organizers have tried to be as optimistic picture of the can in the
field of contemporary art, science, art and culture This image was
deliberately chosen to contribute to a better and more humane world. The
optimistic modernism was reflected in the architecture of many pavilions.
The Dutch pavilion with the theme "water" was at the end as number six on
the list of most visited sections. This book gives special attention to
this Dutch contribution to the Expo. A general introduction, in large
contours this exciting exhibition down. The architecture and decor of the
English department, including the Philips Pavilion, are fully explained.
On the basis of source material is a fascinating new light on the
contribution of Gerrit Rietveld at the Department of modern furnishings
and are specially designed for the Expo furniture. This also applies to
the textile exhibition in cooperation between Gerrit Rietveld, Jan Bons
and Wim Smits was established and a Rietveld unusual design was surreal.
Karel Appel made the spot a large mural in the dome of the Waterworks, the
contents of which his later reputation that he aanrotzooide what seems to
disprove, but appearances are deceiving. Also millions of Dutch people
visited the Expo, as very close, 'knocked' over half years' the heart of
the world and you had that chance, even if it could not ignore. Interviews
with people who experienced a close shot by amateurs and many photos
enliven the whole.
I contributed photos of Expo 58. The book sure makes
me wish I could read Dutch.
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End of the
Innocence, The: The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
by Lawrence R. Samuel (2007)
From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52
million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair,
an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in
America's collective consciousness. Lawrence R. Samuel offers a
thought-provoking portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural
climate that surrounded it, countering critics' assessment of the Fair as
the "ugly duckling" of global expositions. Although much attention has
been paid to the controversial role of Fair president Robert Moses, who
tried to use the event to ensure his personal legacy, the Fair itself was
for the great majority of visitors an overwhelmingly positive, often
inspirational, and sometimes transcendent experience that truly delivered
on its theme of "peace through understanding." Much of the Fair's
popularity, Samuel suggests, stemmed from its looking backward as much as
forward, offering visitors sanctuary from the cultural storm that was
rapidly approaching in the mid-1960s. Opening just five months after
President Kennedy's assassination, the Fair allowed millions to celebrate
international brotherhood while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil.
The Fair glorified the postwar American dream of limitless optimism just
as a counterculture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll was coming into
being. It was, in short, the last gasp of the American Dream: The End of
the Innocence.
I contributed all of the photographs used in this
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Exit to
Tomorrow: History of the Future, World's Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion
1933-2005
Text by Paola Antonelli and Udo
Kultermann, Edited by Andrew Garn (2007)
Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from
the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future
in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and
drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as
Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier.
Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's
tomorrow is a superb tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture
and design.
I contributed a photograph of the United States
Science Center from the 1962 World's Fair. |
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James
Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics, and History in the 1960s
by Michael Lobel (2009)
James Rosenquist's paintings,
with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly
emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. Their provocative imagery also touches on
some of the major political and historical events of that turbulent
decade--from the Kennedy assassination to the war in Vietnam. In the first
full-length scholarly examination of Rosenquist's art from that period,
Michael Lobel weaves together close visual analysis, a wealth of archival
research, and a consideration of the social and historical contexts in
which these paintings were produced to offer bold new readings of a body
of work that helped redefine art in the 1960s. Bringing together a range
of approaches, James Rosenquist provides a compelling perspective on the
artist and on the burgeoning consumer culture of postwar America.
I provided research and photos
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Leisurama Now: The Beach House for
Everyone
by Paul Sahre (2008)
In 2001, when graphic designer Paul Sahre rented a
summer home in Montauk, his retreat turned out to be a relic: it was one
of only 200 or so cookie-cutter beach houses built in the mid-1960s as
part of the Leisurama housing project. Sold by Macy's, Leisurama homes
were both affordable and all-inclusive; their boxy, simply designed
interiors came fully furnished and accessorized -- all buyers needed were
'groceries and a key.' The houses were immensely popular but ultimately
unprofitable, and thus sadly short-lived. Sahre's fascinating study of
Leisurama's brand identity, marketing effort, and mid-century modern
design presents a passionately visual and contextually dense study. All
told, it's a revelatory history of how prefab became fabulous.
I contributed several photographs of the 1964-1965 New
York World's Fair. |
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Megastructure
Reloaded: Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected
by Contemporary Artists
Edited by Sabrina Ley (2008)
From artbook.com: Fueled by a dissatisfaction with
existing architectural solutions and an infusion of pop culture, art and
rebellion, utopian urban proposals from the 1960s, such as Archigram's
Plug-in City, Yona Friedman's La Ville Spatiale and New Babylon by former
CoBrA painter, Constant, constitute a template for the concept of the
megastructure-a city encased in one large structure or series of
structures. Megastructure Reloaded posits the megastructure as a fix for
contemporary urban architectural problems. The key figures of this
resurgence--a group of architects and artists including Jose Davila, Simon
Dybbroe Møller, Ryan Gander, Erik Goengrich, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Victor
Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth, Tobias Putrih, Tomas Saraceno, Katrin
Sigurdardottir and Tilman Wendland--are detailed in this volume through
texts and images. Soviet peripheral cities are discussed for their
historical precedent and contextualized through ironic responses to them
by radical architecture collectives such as Superstudio and Archizoom. The
volume is rounded out with texts on Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio
Costa and the planned cities of Chandigarh and Brasilia, as well as a
theoretical section on megastructures and megacities. This volume is
published in concert with an extensive European traveling exhibition and a
series of symposia and workshops.
I contributed a photo of Expo 67 in Montreal. |
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Miracle Has Landed, The
Edited by Matthew Silverman & Ken Samelson (2009)
Seven seasons after the Mets debuted with the
most losses in modern baseball history, the franchise was still seen
as a laughingstock, with 100-to-1 odds to win the World Series when
1969 began. The first year of divisional play started out as the
Cubs' year, while most onlookers figured the Mets would be happy if
they could play .500 ball. Tom Seaver's "Imperfect Game" against
Chicago showed that the Mets could play with the big boys, but the
Cubs still had a double-digit lead on the Mets in the middle of
August. The Cubs stumbled, plagued by worn-out players, black cats,
and bad luck, and magnificent Mets pitching turned the tide.
The Miracle Has Landed celebrates the loveable
Mets like no other book, complete with photos and artifacts of the
time. A project of the Society for American Baseball Research, this
volume gathers the collective efforts of more than thirty SABR
members and features profiles of every player, coach, broadcaster,
and significant front-office member connected to that great Mets
squad. Included are Hall of Famers Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan,
beloved manager Gil Hodges, the talented outfield of Cleon Jones,
Tommie Agee, and Ron Swoboda, drill sergeant backstop Jerry Grote,
crucial mid-season acquisition Donn Clendenon, scrappy shortstop Bud
Harrelson, and a pitching staff that went far deeper than just
Seaver and Ryan. Forty years later the Miracle Mets are still
revered, the first world champion expansion team and the club that
stole New York's heart.
I contributed a picture of Shea Stadium taken
shortly after it was built.
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Preservation of
Modern Architecture
by Theodore H.M. Pruden (2008)
As today's valued examples of modern architecture
age to the point that preservation is called for, the methods and
technology used in such preservation must be carefully considered so that
the design integrity of the building is maintained. Written by the
president of an organization committed to the documentation and
preservation of modern architecture, this book outlines best practices for
undertaking such efforts and addresses the latest technological advances
in the field. Containing relevant case studies of preservation projects in
the United States and in Europe, this is the only professional reference
for architects dedicated specifically to the subject of preserving modern
architecture.
I supplied pictures from the 1964-1965 New York
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Queens: Then & Now
by Jason D. Antos (2009)
The borough of Queens has seen many historical and
geographical changes. Marshlands, woods and farms gave way to factories,
thriving communities and the nation’s premier arterial highway system.
Queens, the latest offering in Arcadia Publishing’s Then & Now series, by
Jason D. Antos, a lifelong resident of Queens and the author of two other
local history books about the borough, Whitestone and Shea Stadium, offers
a rare look at New York City’s largest borough, featuring many photographs
never published until now.
I supplied a picture from the 1964-1965 New York
World's Fair. |
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Revolving Architecture: A History of
Buildings That Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot
by Chad Randl (2008)
The follow-up to his critically acclaimed book
A-frame, Chad Randl's Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that
Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot explores the history of this unique building
type, investigating the cultural forces that have driven people to design
and inhabit them. Revolving Architecture is packed with a variety of
fantastic revolving structures such as a jail that kept inmates under a
warden's constant surveillance, glamorous revolving restaurants,
tuberculosis treatment wards, houses, theaters, and even a contemporary
residential building whose full-floor apartments circle independently of
each other. International examples from the late 1800s though the present
demonstrate the variety and innovation of these dynamic structures.
I supplied pictures from the 1964-1965 New York
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Shea Stadium (Images of Baseball)
by Jason D. Antos (2007)
Rising among the factories and body shops off
Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, Shea Stadium became the home of the New York
Mets in 1964. Named after William A. Shea, the New York attorney
responsible for bringing baseball back to the Big Apple after the
departure of the Giants and the Dodgers, Shea Stadium has been the setting
for many of the game’s greatest moments. Able to be converted from a
baseball diamond into a football fi eld, the ballpark was home to the New
York Jets from 1964 until 1983. From its opening in 1964 for the world’s
fair to the unforgettable Beatles concert to the 1969 Miracle Mets, this
book covers the history of Shea Stadium through its inception and up to
the creation of the new modern-day Citi Field, which the Mets will call
home in 2009.
I supplied pictures of the construction and early days
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