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BarCamp Fond du Lac 2, September 20, 2014 at the Stayer Center, Marian University, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Sad. The Daily Camera printing press is being disassembled. Printing
now takes place in Denver. The DC has been my daily community paper
all my life.
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 96, Frontpiece. Published by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India with the kind permission of the Navajivan Trust, Ahmedabad.
The Asia Foundation continues its support of Asian publishers, including building printing presses, such as this one in Afghanistan in 1971.
Five columns are meant to represent FDR’s New Deal, depicted as rolls of an industrial printing press. The negative images are shown wrapped around the columns and then “imprinted” on the wall to your left as bronze reliefs. The images show different New Deal programs that FDR enacted to help the United States out of the Great Depression. These tactile reliefs are meant to be interactive for the blind and include Braille captions throughout. Unfortunately, many of the Braille captions are illegible due to misplacement high on the sculpture and the incorrect spacing of the dots.
The Detail
A multitude of new deal efforts are further memorialized in this chamber in the form of a thirty-foot-long bronze mural by Robert Graham.
Robert Graham began his study for the Social Programs mural by doing intensive research on the new deal. He chose fifty-four programs to depict and then look for images to graphically symbolize the essence of each. Thus, for example, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is symbolized by two workers planting a ponderosa pine seedling, and the Farm Security Administration (FSA), by a farmer driving a tractor.
The mural consists of realistic images as well as writing, braille, and a background of the hands and faces of workers. The mural depicts the efforts of many of the innovative programs—the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the FSA, labor relations, social security—which elevated the country from the quagmire into which it had sunk. These social programs, sometimes called the alphabet programs (because of the acronyms which referred to them), were the New Deal solutions which were developed to enable people to pull themselves up from the depths of despair.
The next step for sculptor Graham was to establish an overall format for the mural that would organize all of the images. Graham used a grade of photographs as a way to study this issue. The result is a matrix based on a twelve-by-twelve-inch grid of squares overlaid on five 6-by-6-foot panels. One panel contains thirty-six 12-inch squares, two panels contain nine 24-inch squares, and two panels contain four 36-inch squares. Within this geometry, the mural allows for a series of variations within an overall order.
Robert Graham
Born in Mexico, Robert Graham came to the United States in 1950 when he was twelve years old. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, where the great muralist Diego Rivera had taught.
Since the 1970s, Graham’s sculptures have shifted from beautiful, small, gallery-sized environments the large monument-scale civic works such as the gateway figures at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the Duke Ellington Memorial in New York’s Central Park.
Bob works primarily in bronze and has his own foundry where he often casts his pieces with his production team. This workshop approach to the making of art is very reminiscent of Renaissance artists and has allowed him to experiment and explore new materials and casting techniques. Masterful draftsmanship of the human form, innovative casting techniques, and an appreciation of architecture as an art of spaces as well as of forms have allowed Bob Graham to envision his sculptures as part of an expanded public life.
Graham’s murals sympathetically evoke the Works Progress Administration murals of the new deal. The WPA funded highly creative, unemployed artists to work on government buildings. The murals, which often depict workers engaged in their labor, enrich the quality of post office is, libraries, and other civic buildings. Other innovative programs created jobs for writers, photographers, actors, musicians, and dancers. By supporting these individuals, the WPA promoted a remarkable efflorescence of the arts and gave these talented Americans a great sense of useful participation in the country’s recovery.
In addition to the mural itself, Graham devised an innovative method of revealing the casting process and further exploring the images. Five bronze cylinders stand free from the wall and contained the negative images of the five panels on the large wall. A viewer can imagine these cylinder seals rolled on the clay to make the positive images on the murals affixed to the wall. And, as a metaphor, the viewer can imagine the positive, practical results produced by these alphabet agencies.
The web speeds through, and down to be folded. here it has been cut down the middle - on the right hand side, between two blue squares you can see the front page
I love the smell of press wash in the morning! I've always worked in the printing/publishing business.... currently for a newspaper. There's nothing like the smell and sound of a big Goss press running at speed.
These printing presses, mostly built and designed in the United States in the 1800s, are part of the display celebrating the Ecuadorean Constitution, which is located in the Principal Library of Quito.
Nike sells their own tees and allows you to choose from various pre-made graphics, or you can customize their graphics yourself
A look inside where the Columbia Daily Spectator comes from every morning. Stellar Printing Inc., Long Island City.
Company manager: "I had a choice between being a printer and being a journalist. I chose the former because it actually pays."
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These printing presses, mostly built and designed in the United States in the 1800s, are part of the display celebrating the Ecuadorean Constitution, which is located in the Principal Library of Quito.
i believe 1981 but i already packed this. end of an era. they had just got terminals to replace typewriters, but were still hand-stuffing inserts.
another wave of change is hitting newspapers, and print media in general. i understand the need but i still feel strong nostalgia looking at this -- i spent a lot of my childhood in the newsroom.
it dawned on me this was a strong influence in the thrill of publishing i get. i've always had a dream to put out a fully-staffed humor mag like MAD, but this isn't the time to start a new print publishing venture to say the least. and a new website just doesn't have the same thrill. maybe a web-based RAW that puts out a print-version now and then? hmmmm.... i may have just talked myself into a new project.