https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/5681/Steiner-Harris[C].jpg 6b4cceee3e1ab107a05d46349ce14ec7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Harris, Trudier Photograph Title Title of photograph American Rural Baroque 1929 Book Genre Memoir Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Documentary Photographer Photographer Steiner, Ralph Designer Designer of book cover Eisenman, Sara Notes Notes associated with the item This 1929 photograph by Ralph Steiner is one of his best known. Titled 'American Rural Baroque', it predates Grant Woods 'American Gothic' by one year. In addition to being a sterling example of Modernist photographic formalism, it serves to portray, and preserve, an archetype of rural Americana; from the warmth of the light to the carefully crafted intricacies of the chair back, one feels a sense of calm, but also of loss. In Trudier Harris' memoir, 'Summer Snow', Steiner's image becomes a cliché for the rural South. What I find interesting is how a very similar image, made by a different photographer but, consciously or not, influenced by the Steiner photo, is used in a book about metal illness and institutionalized living. In Michael Winerip's '9 Highland Road', the empty chair and its shadow becomes a symbol of absence (both literal and emotional) and of the borderline between confinement and freedom. While the shadow of Steiner's chair manifests itself as an engaging optical puzzle, the chair on the cover of Winerip's book (photographed by Kathleen DiGrado) casts the ominous shadow of bars on a stone wall. KB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Beacon Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Relation A related resource Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Title A name given to the resource Summer Snow