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Lingering Spirit: A photographic tribute to Indiana's fading, forlorn, and forgotten places PHOTOGRAPHY by John Bower, FOREWORD by Judy O'Bannon |
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The project description and philosophy The photographs for this book include buildings, structures, vehicles, or pieces of machinery in various stages of disuse or abandonment. These objects were once central to the lives of a myriad of people—owners, operators, builders, employers, mortgage holders, residents—but are now forsaken. Yet, they represent our collective Hoosier past, and they help define who we are today. When I shoot an abandoned church, a partially caved-in farmhouse, a rusted automobile, or an empty factory—I am very much aware how these objects are memorials to the lives of Hoosiers who came before me. I often wonder, what became of the women who gave birth and raised children, canned pickles, and pieced quilts, in those now-empty farmhouses? What about the men who worked 12 or more hours a day in those dreary dilapidated mills? Who was the original owner of that junked Ford pickup truck? What happened to the brick masons who built that one-room schoolhouse, and the generations of students who sat at its desks? While these personal stories are usually lost, my images pay homage to all these individuals who moved on. Lingering Spirit - $22.00. |
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This book project was made possible in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, with funds from the Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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