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A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
Martha Langford and John Langford examine their father's apparently innocuous photographic experience, revealing the complexity of both the images and their creator. An intelligent and personal look at the ways that the historical and the private are represented and remembered, A Cold War Tourist and His Camera stages the family slide show as you've never seen it before.
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Lookout America! the secret Hollywood studio at the heart of the Cold War
\"The story of the Cold War era Lookout Mountain Laboratory, or the 1352nd Photographic Group of the United States Air Force, which employed hundreds of Hollywood studio veterans. Engages with issues of the Cold War state and visual culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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War without Bodies
Historically the bodies of civilians are the most damaged by the
increasing mechanization and derealization of warfare, but this is
not reflected in the representation of violence in popular media.
In War Without Bodies , author Martin Danahay argues that
the media in the United States in particular constructs a \"war
without bodies\" in which neither the corpses of soldiers or
civilians are shown. War Without Bodies traces the
intertwining of new communications technologies and war from the
Crimean War, when Roger Fenton took the first photographs of the
British army and William Howard Russell used the telegraph to
transmit his dispatches, to the first of three \"video wars\" in the
Gulf region in 1990-91, within the context of a war culture that
made the costs of organized violence acceptable to a wider public.
New modes of communication have paradoxically not made more war
\"real\" but made it more ubiquitous and at the same time
unremarkable as bodies are erased from coverage. Media such as
photography and instantaneous video initially seemed to promise
more realism but were assimilated into existing conventions that
implicitly justified war. These new representations of war were
framed in a way that erased the human cost of violence and replaced
it with images that defused opposition to warfare. Analyzing
poetry, photographs, video and video games the book illustrates the
ways in which war was framed in these different historical
contexts. It examines the cultural assumptions that influenced the
reception of images of war and discusses how death and damage to
bodies was made acceptable to the public. War Without
Bodies aims to heighten awareness of how acceptance of war is
coded into texts and how active resistance to such hidden messages
can help prevent future unnecessary wars.
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Tracing the Roots of Motion Capture
Modern motion capture technology owes a conceptual debt to the early twentieth-century innovations of Frank (1868-1924) and Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972), whose pioneering motion studies laid the groundwork for today's sophisticated systems used in biomechanics, animation, and virtual environments. Lillian Gilbreth, a psychologist and industrial engineer, and her husband Frank, an efficiency-focused engineer, collaborated with the goal of optimizing human labor. Their guiding principle, that there is \"one best way\" to perform any task, was rooted in the belief that reducing wasted effort could minimize fatigue, yielding both economic and personal benefits. Their work merged psychology, engineering, and design in ways that would prove prescient for future developments in motion analysis. At the heart of their method was the cyclegraph, a system combining time-lapse photography with light-tracing techniques. Small lamps affixed to workers' fingers captured the paths of motion as they performed tasks, creating luminous trails that mapped movement with striking clarity. These traces, which they sometimes transformed into wire sculptures, turned abstract gestures into physical models of efficiency. The Gilbreths' findings informed improvements in surgical training, military drills, assembly line design, and hospital workflows by isolating and eliminating unnecessary motions.
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Portraits of Conflict
A deeply divided border state, heir to the \"Bleeding Kansas\" era, Missouri became the third most fought-over state in the war, following Virginia and Tennessee. Rich in resources and manpower, critical politically to both the Union and the Confederacy, it was the scene of conventional battles, river warfare, and cavalry raids. It saw the first combat by organized units of Native Americans and African Americans. It was also marked by guerrilla warfare of unparalleled viciousness. This volume, the ninth in the series, includes hundreds of photographs, many of them never before published. The authors provide text and commentary, organizing the photographs into chapters covering the origins of the war, its conventional and guerrilla phases, the war on the rivers, medicine (Sweeny's medical knowledge adds a great deal to this chapter and expands our knowledge of its practice in the west), the experiences of Missourians who served out of state, and the process of reunion in the postwar years.
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Comparison of Alternative Approaches for Wetlands Mapping: A Case Study from three U.S. National Parks
We performed an assessment of U.S. Geological Survey/National Park Service (USGS/NPS) vegetation mapping versus National Wetland Inventory (NWI) estimates of wetland occurrence and extent for three national parks, each having a different NWI mapping scale (1:40,000, 1:58,000, and 1:80,000). Our prediction was that the USGS/NPS mapping would be significantly more effective than NWI in predicting total wetland area within each park, and would commit fewer errors of omission and commission. For use as a control group, each park had recent wetland field determination data collected in accordance with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers protocols. Contrary to our prediction, mean NWI wetland area estimates were more accurate than USGS/NPS mapping at the 1:40,000 and 58,000 scales. At the 1:80,000 scale, NWI and USGS/NPS estimates were similar. NWI wetland area estimates were not significantly different (α = 0.05) from the control data at two of the study parks, whereas USGS/NPS estimates were significantly larger than the control group at two of the three parks. This research highlights the relative strength of NWI mapping for landscape level wetland analysis, and the need to support remote sensing data by allocating field resources for accuracy assessment in specific areas based on management goals.
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