[Leica] Missing Milwaukee: The Lost Buildings of Milwaukee

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Alan,

Excelent work!

cheers
Lluis


El 25/09/2011, a las 5:15, Alan Magayne-Roshak escribi?:

> I was at City Hall signing some books and took this of the man who  
> put the project together:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/Yance_AMR.jpg.html
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> Historic Milwaukee, Inc. Announces
> The Book Release of Missing Milwaukee during Doors Open Milwaukee
>
> Milwaukee, WI - 09/09/11 - Missing Milwaukee: The Lost Buildings of  
> Milwaukee presents vintage photographs of a number of downtown  
> buildings that have been demolished. The photographs were taken by  
> local photographers, Alan Magayne-Roshak and Gordy Simons, during  
> the late 1960s through the early 1980s. The photos show the  
> architecture lost during that time of change in the city. Local  
> architectural historian and web developer of OldMilwaukee.net, Yance  
> Marti, has researched these missing structures and shows their  
> importance to downtown's history in the book. He has worked with  
> Magayne-Roshak and Simons to reveal a side of the city that younger  
> readers have never seen.
>
> The book will be released during the Doors Open  Milwaukee event on  
> September 24 & 25, organized by Historic Milwaukee, Inc. This will  
> offer readers
> a chance to see the contrast between downtown  Milwaukee's remaining  
> historic architecture and  the historic architecture that is shown  
> in the book.  Each of the buildings in the photographs were   
> important in the development of the city and their  loss was a loss  
> to the city's vitality.
>
> Some of the buildings documented in Missing Milwaukee include the  
> Norman Apartments, Belmont Hotel, Metropolitan Block, Pabst  
> Building, Chapman's Department Store, Chicago and Northwestern  
> Railway Depot, and the Elk's Club. These are shown in brilliantly  
> detailed photographs by two skilled photographers who know their  
> craft well.
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak is the Senior Photographer at UWM Photo Services  
> where he has worked since the early 1970s. He started documenting  
> Milwaukee in the 1960s and photographed the demolition of the  
> Chicago and Northwestern Depot in 1968 when he was still a student  
> at UWM. Some of his work shown in this book was included in a 2003  
> exhibition called "Less is Less: The '70s - A Decade of Demolition".
>
> Gordy Simons is a professional musician and photographer who works  
> with large format photography to capture the fine detail of  
> buildings around Milwaukee, starting in the 1980s. He takes great  
> care to create the perfect image with his 11x14 Deardorff camera.  
> The work he presents here has never before been exhibited.
>
> The author, Yance Marti, works as a Civil Engineer and has a deep  
> interest in Milwaukee's architectural history. He developed the  
> OldMilwaukee.net website in 2007 to present articles and research  
> from a variety of sources detailing the history of the city. The  
> greater part of his research is to compile the history of downtown's  
> buildings from some of the earliest structures to the newest.  
> Landmarks long gone are not forgotten in this research, which is  
> reflected in this book showing buildings which otherwise might  
> easily be forgotten by their absence.
>
> Missing Milwaukee is published by Historic Milwaukee, Inc. and will  
> be available for pre-order from the Doors Open Milwaukee website, 
> www.doorsopenmilwaukee.org 
> , and during the Doors Open Milwaukee event, September 24th & 25th,  
> at the Missing Milwaukee table at the Doors Open Event Headquarters,  
> the City Hall Rotunda, and a few other sites on the schedule. Sales  
> of the book will help fund HMI's mission of education and advocacy  
> for the preservation of the built environment.
> About Historic Milwaukee, Inc.
> Historic Milwaukee, Inc. (HMI) is a private, non-profit educational  
> and advocacy organization founded in 1974 whose mission is dedicated  
> to increasing awareness of and commitment to Milwaukee's history,  
> architecture and the preservation of our built environment.
>
> We are the recognized leader in creating awareness of and commitment  
> to Milwaukee's history and the preservation of its built  
> environment. We provide this through innovative, responsive programs  
> and strong community, corporate and civic alliances.
>
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