The Quiet Hours
The Quiet Hours: City Photographs
MIKE MELMAN
With an Essay by BILL HOLM
Copyright Date: 2003
Edition: NED - New edition
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 96
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttszz2
Search for reviews of this book
Book Info
The Quiet Hours
Book Description:

With an essay by Bill Holm 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. 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.

eISBN: 978-0-8166-9583-6
Subjects: Art & Art History
You do not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try logging in through your institution for access.
Log in to your personal account or through your institution.
Table of Contents
Export Selected Citations Export to NoodleTools Export to RefWorks Export to EasyBib Export a RIS file (For EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, Zotero, Mendeley...) Export a Text file (For BibTex)
Select / Unselect all
  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
  3. PREFACE
    PREFACE (pp. ix-x)
    MIKE MELMAN
  4. CITIES OF SHADOW AND LIGHT
    CITIES OF SHADOW AND LIGHT (pp. 1-10)
    BILL HOLM

    With the exception of a few antique interiors, these are city images: stone and iron bridges, railroad yards, grain elevators, warehouses, factories, abandoned relics ready for the wrecking ball. They are taken mostly in half-light and bad weather, those early hours when the feeble winter sun of Minnesota can hardly squeeze its way up into the heavy overcast sky. The strongest light floods into the oversized windows of deserted buildings, ghosts of light come into empty bare rooms. The businesses in these pictures (taken mostly in the 1990s) are ghosts, too, from the 1920s and 1930s—a shoe repair shop,...

  5. THE QUIET HOURS: CITY PHOTOGRAPHS
    THE QUIET HOURS: CITY PHOTOGRAPHS (pp. 11-82)
  6. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 83-83)
University of Minnesota Press logo