WRPR 160: Borders, Walls and Bridges (HC): Background Sources

Provides online access to over 50,000 photographs from the collections of the Philadelphia Department of Records. Also provides digital access to the Philadelphia historical streets index and the Philadelphia historical photograph index.

FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR SEARCHING. Brings together the collections, data, images and professional expertise of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and several local cultural institutions, enabling free access to information on the built environment of the five-county Philadelphia area.

An exercise in the art of seeing and bookmaking, this 464 page tome explores the Berlin Wall as a repository for 20th century history and as a symbol of a divided, dangerous and polarized world. By asking us to look at what we have misplaced or abandoned as well as what we intended Gossage brings us face to face with the present as it becomes history.

Explores the ways in which the Israeli West Bank barrier has been used as a canvas on which artists, whether Palestinians and Israelis or foreigners, display their work. The different cultural arenas on either side of the wall dictate and give impulses to different modes of expression and uses of visual vocabulary; this tension is reflected in the layout of this book, which displays works from either side of the wall alongside each other.

Sue Kwon's debut monograph, which collects 20 years of her astounding documentary and commercial work provides an unprecedented look at some of the city's most charismatic neighbourhoods, as well as a rare glimpse of some of Hip Hop's biggest names before they hit the big time. Each chapter focuses on a specific area, including Little Italy, Coney Island, Chinatown and the Lower East Side, allowing reader to journey through the city's neighbourhoods in detail.
See Magill's photograph book collection in the Philips Wing for more images of urban space.