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CyberAtlas: Guggenheim Museum CyberAtlas is the fascinating result of a project undertaken by the Guggenheim Museum to literally chart virtual territory. Selected maps on the site guide the browser through cyberspace, focusing especially on sites related to visual art and culture. RoadTrip America RoadTrip America is the web's "only feature magazine produced completely from on the road," compiled by a group who call themselves dashboard professionals, or dashboarders for short. Photos, articles, and information about traveling through different places (including the web itself) are presented in a uniquely interactive format. 
PORTFOLIO: Richard Misrach (six photographs)
With high-resolution images of his photographs, this site details Misrach's artistry and explains each piece individually. Blindspot.com This online photography magazine includes a gallery with photographs by, among others, Richard Misrach, Chuck Close, William Eggleston, and Wolfgang Tillmans. Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad (painting)
The Artcyclopedia archive provides links to images by and information about Hopper. Smithsonian Museum's Edward Hopper Scrapbook The Smithsonian's online "scrapbook" of Hopper's life and work is composed of audio, visual, and written clippings, including an audio clip of John Clancy's explanation of how the Museum of Modern Art acquired House by the Railroad. Eudora Welty, The Little Store (fiction)
Produced by the University of Mississippi, this directory of Eudora Welty photographs accompanies a longer article placing her works in the context of the South. E. B. White, "Once More to the Lake" (essay)
The official White web site. Poets.org One of the many locations on the web where Yeats's poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" can be found. Kerry James Marshall, Watts 1963 (painting)
PBS's page on Marshall includes biographical information, other works, and links to interviews. Turn Left or Get Shot (photograph)
As part of its story on Huey Newton, PBS provides a brief account of the Watts riots and includes newsreel footage and links to relevant pages. PBS.org: Wattstax As part of its story on Wattstax, the film that documents both a 1972 concert by black performers from Stax Records at the Los Angeles Coliseum and interviews with people living in Watts, this PBS page provides links to more resources on Watts, including an article in which people who lived in Watts in the mid-1960s talk about the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. University of Southern California Gives a brief background on the Watts riots and additional sources. Eric Liu, "The Chinatown Idea" (essay)
Liu is featured on PBS's program, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience. RETROSPECT: Camilo José Vergara, 65 East 125th Street, Harlem (twelve photographs)
An online publication about Harlem by Harlem youth; includes valuable links and offers a solid counterpoint to this chapter's Retrospect. Mark Peterson, Image of Homelessness (photograph)
An exhibit of photographs taken by photojournalist Jana Birchum of young homeless people living in Austin, Texas. Sponsored by the Austin Chronicle, where the photographs first appeared, the site features two galleries of images accompanied by commentary and an essay. Poor Magazine An online magazine that focuses on poverty-related issues. Norman Mailer, from Three Minutes or Less (quote)
The New York State Writers Institute web page includes a biography, bibliography, and a list of resources. David Guterson, "No Place Like Home: On the Manicured Streets of a Master-Planned Community" (essay)
David Guterson's essay offers one take on the changes and developments of Green Valley, Nevada. The creators of Shaping San Francisco, the Internet component of a CD-ROM from AK Press, aim to provide an interactive multimedia documentation of the social history of the San Francisco community, "a new approach to the study of urban life." Brian Ulrich, Granger, IN (photograph)
Ulrich's personal web site about his work includes a blog. PORTFOLIO: Joel Sternfeld (four photographs)
Philadelphia City Paper's online article on Sternfeld's On This Site. National Park Service The National Park Service offers a different view of Mount Rushmore. PBS.org: Mount Rushmore PBS's companion site to the film Mount Rushmore, which originally aired on the American Experience. PBS.org: The Murder of Emmett Till PBS's companion site to the film The Murder of Emmett Till, which also aired originally on the American Experience. Bill McKibben, "Worried? Us?" (essay)
FAQs about global warming from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Union of Concerned Scientists An organization that supports McKibben's views. EPA The Environmental Protection Agency's web site on global warming. National Geographic, Earth at Night (photograph)
An article describing how NASA scientists study urbanization through city-light data. National Geographic National Geographic's web site. Visible Earth An archive of NASA's images of Earth. Google Maps Zoom in on satellite images from around the world with Google's satellite map feature. Scott Russell Sanders, "Homeplace" (essay)
Run by the Anglo-Australian Observatory, this site contains about thirty pictures of stars, galaxies, and nebulas. Pictures are billed as "some of the finest wide-field astronomy pictures made with professional telescopes anywhere." You might consider these in relation to Scott Russell Sanders's "Homeplace" or K.C. Cole's "A Matter of Scale." Bharati Mukherjee, "Imagining Homelands" (essay)
This site includes biographical information about Mukherjee and quotations from the author about her life and work. LOOKING CLOSER: Imagining the Grand Canyon
The National Park Service web site for the Grand Canyon. The Canyon This site offers a number of prescribed ways in which to see the Grand Canyon. National Park Service The National Park Service web site offers a gallery of Thomas Moran's paintings from Yellowstone National Park's museum collection, including information about his survey expeditions into the Yellowstone region with photographer William Henry Jackson. PBS.org The PBS web site exhibits Ansel Adams's work along with information about his equipment, a biographical time line, and rare video footage. Return of the Primitive Shawn Macomber's web site. Martin Parr Martin Parr's web site. Woody Gwyn Woody Gwyn's web site. |
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