My contribution to a collaborative project...
Hoosier Lifelines: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020
Collaborators (all from Indiana University, Bloomington)...
Elizabeth Grennan Browning, Environmental Resilience Institute (project lead)
Eric Sandweiss, Department of History
Betsy Stirratt, Grunwald Gallery of Art
Maria Whiteman, Environmental Resilience Institute
This exhibit will be shown at two venues in 2021:
Bloomington, Indiana, and New Albany, Indiana
Above: fifteen vintage images taken along the former Monon.
I made these photographs while growing up in the vicinity of
Bloomington, Indiana; most are from the mid- to late-1970s.
These are pigment prints: image size 10" x 15" on 13" x 19" paper.
What follows is a group of seventeen images I made (in the fall of 2020)
along the former Monon Railroad between Michigan City and Monon, Indiana.
These will be printed (Fujiflex on aluminum) in a borderless fashion: 20" x 30".
In addition, there are two historical images supplied by the John W. Barriger III
National Railroad Library, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
These two are pigment prints, image size 7.5" x 10" on 12" x 14" paper.
NIPSCO Plant, Michigan City
Initial trip: September 26th 2020
Outlet Mall on the former site of the Pullman Plant, Michigan City
Second trip: October 16th 2020
Tracks of the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend where they cross those
of the Michigan Central (NYC)/Monon at West 10th Street, Michigan City
Initial trip: September 26th 2020
Looking southward on the former roadbed of the Monon
just north of Earl Road, Michigan City
Initial trip: September 26th 2020
Bridge abutment in Westville: this supported
a line of the Wabash over that of the Monon
Third trip: November 13th 2020