A Bicentennial Celebration of Cleveland and Its People

• Hardback book
• Copyright 1995 by the Cleveland Bicentennial Committee

According to the Foreword:
" Every Clevelander has a mental map of the city that may differ radically from official cartography.
For some the city's boundaries are the corner grocery and the neighborhood church.
The mental maps of others incorporate locations as distant from the city's geographical limits as Cedar Point and Blossom Music Center.
Favorite places loom large in one's conception of the geography of the city.
For you, Gateway, rather than Public Square, may be the center of Cleveland. "

" To expect a single photography book, even one designated as the official commemorative publication of the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission, to capture the quintessential Cleveland- that treasured terrain common to the mental maps of its citizens- is to ask the impossible.
Instead, in searching for the best way to represent the Bicentennial spirit in paper and ink, the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission decided to invite a group of talented photographers to share their personal visions of the people and activities that make our town special in a proposed coffeetable book.
Decidedly not a paint-by-the-numbers portrait of life in this community, the photo essay that emerged from nine months of shooting throughout the city and its suburbs went mere comprehensiveness one better.
The Bicentennial photographers returned with a view of Cleveland that is as fresh and provocative as it is deeply felt.
Thus, this book's title. "

This book is in very good condition with some wear to the cover.
There are several tiny white specks that look like paint.
No torn or ripped pages and no other markings or writing.

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