Seeing Silicon Valley

Life Inside a Fraying America

Mary Beth Meehan, Fred Turner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-78648-3 (ISBN)

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Acclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world.

It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley, one segregated by race, class, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation, and while its billionaires live in compounds, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences, its service workers live in their cars.

With arresting photography and intimate stories, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses, we see portraits of struggle-families displaced by an impossible real estate market, workers striving for a living wage, and communities harmed by environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America-as so many of its boosters claim-then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future.

Mary Beth Meehan is a photographer known for her large-scale, community-based portraiture centered around questions of representation, visibility, and social equity in the United States. She lives in New England. Fred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author several books, including From Counterculture to Cyberculture, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Valley on the Hill Fred Turner
Photographs and Stories Mary Beth Meehan

Cristobal
Ravi and Gouthami
Victor
Warren
Justyna
Teresa
Mary
Diane
Abraham and Brenda
Ariana and Elijah
Mark
Imelda
Richard
Leslie
Geraldine
Jolea
Melissa and Steve
Jon
Gee and Virginia
Branton and Shirley
Konstance
Aurora
Erfan
Ted
Elisa and Family
Elizabeth

Afterword
Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 178 mm
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-78648-X / 022678648X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-78648-3 / 9780226786483
Zustand	Neuware