#david weitzman

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* "Skywalkers"

* “Skywalkers”

“Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City” is not about Luke or other sci fi characters.  It’s a terrific nonfiction read on the role of the Mohawk people in building our country’s skyscrapers- and much more.  Written for middle to high school plus, this book is a surprising page-turner.  The author, David Weitzman, takes us from the early culture of the Mohawk people to their present day…

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Sacred jewellery

Jewellery has always fascinated me, everything about it: the process of its creation, the many disparate materials used, the way it interacts with the body, and the subtle messages it conveys. It seems to me like a place of infinite creative possibilities. However, much of my jewellery experience has been in the context of the fine art world (I am a metalsmith by trade), where decorative elements…

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Superpower ı The Making of a Steam Locomotive | David Weitzman

David Weitzman grew up in Chicago and as a child admittedly spent more time drawing than studying. This behavior, as if often does, landed him in art school. He received a degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952, and later, perhaps to atone for his grammar-school sins, both a BS and MA in history. By the early 1970s he had moved to Covelo, California, where he began to write and illustrate children's/young adult books about history.

Around 1980 he began to specialize in historically-accurate juvenile fiction about American industrial archeology. He has written on airplanes, ships, iron foundries, metal workers, canals, windmills, bridges and subways, but has returned to the subject of steam power a number of times.

His first book on steam was Superpower, published by Godine in 1987. It concerned 18-yo Ben as he went to work with his father and grandfather at the Lima Locomotive Works as they designed, cast and erected the first 2-8-4 Berkshire class locomotive.

Aside from the story, what set this and his subsequent works apart from other contemporary children's books was obviously the artwork. The hyper-detailed ink on polyester film drawings resemble steel-plate lithographs. As the Smithsonian wrote his illustrations "turn the book into something rare and wonderful."

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I warmly recommend this essay: Machinistic Power | Dallegret, Weitzman, François Roche and the poetry of envisioning the future || dpr barcelona