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These are some of the most wonderful black and white night photographs that I have ever seen. Melman captures the waste of industrial mid-western landscapes, at a magic time of day (the dawn and pre-dawn hours), and turns it into beautiful art. He also depicts shops, storefronts, industrial interiors, all devoid of human presence, in a way that is both nostalgia-invoking and repelling at the same time.
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FRONTISPIECE: Dale Avenue, St. Paul, 1997
Lines from The Bridge, by Hart Crane, from Complete Poems of Han Crane, edited by Marc Simon. Copyright 1933,1958,1966 by Liveright Publishing Corporation. Copyright 1986 by Marc Simon. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. Photographs and preface copyright 2003 by Mike Melman "Cities of Shadow and Light" copyright 2003 by Bill Holm All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
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Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
Melman, Mike. The quiet hours : city photo