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Wisconsin Death Trip
Consists chiefly of excerpts from the Badger State banner, Black River Falls, Wis., for the years 1885-1900 and of photos. taken by Charles Van Schaick from 1890 to 1910.
Time Frames
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Looking Backward
A transporting work of photographic history that offers a haunting vision of how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. Pull the yellowed card from the box and slide it into the viewer. Two binocular images, nearly identical, reveal a scene from the past in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Transcending space and time, the card shows the world as it existed in 1900, a moment when technology collapsed borders; when wars ignited between great powers; when natural forces brought disaster on surging, vulnerable cities—a moment very much like our own. In 1900 the stereograph was king. Its three-dimensional optics created a virtual presence for the viewer. Millions of Am...
Visible Light
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Real Life
A photographic essay that chronicles life in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1920s. This book is about people who passed through the First War on their way to the Great Depression. During the war, they had experienced government intervention and regulation of their food, their labor, and their thoughts more severe than their grandparents had experienced during the Civil War.
Snapshots 1971-77
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Rescues
Michael Lesy's book ponders the question, "Why does someone risk his or her life for another?" In order to understand the nature of heroic acts, Lesy examines the extraordinary deeds on nine seemingly ordinary people.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
Michael Lesy’s disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s—the epicenter of murder in America—could be fiction, but it’s not. “Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else.” So begins a chapter of this sharp, fearless collection from a master storyteller. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases—including that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical Chicago—Michael Lesy captures an extraordinary moment in American history, bringing to life a city where newspapers scrambled to cover the latest mayhem. Just as Lesy’s book Wisconsin Death Trip subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City exposes the tragedy of the Jazz Age and the tortured individuals who may be the progenitors of our modern age.
The Forbidden Zone
As Michael Lesy visits an undertaker and a slaughterhouse, an AIDS hospice and Death Row, he not only satisfies our fascination with the business of contemporary death, he also questions our communal refusal to recognize the limits of life.
Dreamland
From the acclaimed author of Wisconsin Death Trip, a haunting and idiosyncratic view of turn-of-the-century America.
