Imaging Disaster

Imaging Disaster
Title Imaging Disaster PDF eBook
Author Gennifer Weisenfeld
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 494
Release 2012-11-14
Genre Art
ISBN 0520954246

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Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation—the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923—this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketching, urban planning, and even scientific visualizations, Weisenfeld demonstrates how visual culture has powerfully mediated the evolving historical understanding of this major national disaster, ultimately enfolding mourning and memory into modernization.

Imaging Disaster

Imaging Disaster
Title Imaging Disaster PDF eBook
Author Gennifer Weisenfeld
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 414
Release 2012-11-14
Genre Art
ISBN 0520271955

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Imaging Disaster is a rich social history of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Drawing on a kaleidoscopic range of images from the fine arts, magazines, cartoons, and other popular sources, Gennifer Weisenfeld has produced an original study of this catastrophic event from an art historical perspective. —Jonathan Reynolds, Barnard College Imaging Disaster is an exhaustive and illuminating study of the visual culture generated by Japan’s most devastating natural disaster. Comprehensive in scope—covering photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketches, urban planning, and even scientific models—Weisenfeld makes a compelling point that the massive profusion of visual representations that followed the quake must itself be considered an integral part of this tragic historical event.—Seiji Lippit, UCLA

St. Francis Dam Disaster

St. Francis Dam Disaster
Title St. Francis Dam Disaster PDF eBook
Author John Nichols
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 136
Release 2002-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780738520797

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Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers. Built by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California's history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.

Disaster Relief

Disaster Relief
Title Disaster Relief PDF eBook
Author Ruth M. Stratton
Publisher University Press of America
Pages 216
Release 1989
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780819172280

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This study examines the response of national, state and local government to three disasters experienced in New York State since 1974. This study attempts to discover in three particular circumstances how governments responded to the problems of disaster and how these governments responded to one another. A review of the governmental response offers an opportunity to examine the design and the development of disaster policy in the U.S.

Computational Color Imaging

Computational Color Imaging
Title Computational Color Imaging PDF eBook
Author Shoji Tominaga
Publisher Springer
Pages 350
Release 2019-03-19
Genre Computers
ISBN 3030139409

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Computational Color Imaging Workshop, CCIW 2019, held in Chiba, Japan, in March 2019. The 22 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: computational color imaging; multispectral imaging; perceptual model and application; color image evaluation; colot image filtering; color image applications; and color imaging for material appearance. In addition, the book contains 3 invited talks in full paper length.

Wealth and Disaster

Wealth and Disaster
Title Wealth and Disaster PDF eBook
Author Pierre Force
Publisher JHU Press
Pages 253
Release 2016-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 1421421283

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Heat Wave

Heat Wave
Title Heat Wave PDF eBook
Author Eric Klinenberg
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 342
Release 2015-05-06
Genre Nature
ISBN 022627621X

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The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes