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...other finalists in the non-fiction category were journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham...
...copies since it was first printed. Notable past winners of the non-fiction title include Rachel Carson, George F. Kennan, Gore Vidal, and Thomas L. Friedman. The other finalists were Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor at Rutgers and New York Law School, journalists Jane Meyer and Jim Sheeler, and Cambridge resident Joan Wickersham. Faust has said in past interviews that “This Republic of Suffering” will likely be her last book for the foreseeable future, as she does not plan to write while serving as Harvard’s president...
...Ford Motor Co. commissioned Sheeler to spend six weeks photographing Ford's immense new River Rouge assembly plant near Detroit. Ford Plant, River Rouge, Criss-Crossed Conveyors, one of the most famous images in 20th century photography, divides the plant into a multitude of planes, angles and openings with an unmistakable resemblance to the buttresses and steeples of a soaring medieval church. It's no surprise that the next lengthy photo series that Sheeler worked on was a study of the great French cathedral at Chartres. He had already treated the Ford plant as a house...
...Sheeler approached his blunt industrial locales in a rapture that could only produce a new Romanticism, the Romance of the Machine Age. In Power Series, Wheels, his 1939 picture of a locomotive wheel assembly, Sheeler wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...
...Sheeler didn't spend all his time admiring machines. In 1918 or 1919 he made a short film of his future first wife Katharine, positioning her nude body in complicated ways for the camera. The film is lost, but Sheeler printed 10 frames separately as photographs. They are unforgettable. Folded into shelves of plump tissue, her limbs cutting across her torso like wide interstates, Katharine is a nude unlike any other in photography until Lee Friedlander's contorted women of the 1970s. It's not enough to say these pictures are experiments in form, though the ways in which Sheeler...