Book Review : Photography
The Common Good: An Indiana Heritage Built with Taxes, Tithes, and Tuition
by John Bower; foreword by Lee H. Hamilton
Haunting images of crumbling, one-room, brick school houses; abandoned, pre-consolidation high schools; forlorn country chapels; and vacant, big-city churches fill the 144 pages of this captivating book. Also included are dramatic, sepia-toned portraits of the somber remains of a county home; derelict, closed-up buildings at a Victorian Era veterans hospital; gloomy, barred jail cells; a bleak and eerie mental hospital; and much, much more. Though most are now in decay, these once-proud structures and objects built for our mutual benefit still radiate with transcendent meaning and purpose.
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Studio Indiana. Bloomington, IN; www.studioindiana.com; 144 pages, paperback; $22.00 (June 2010); ISBN-10: 0974518662
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