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This collection includes published and unpublished papers, as well as presentations, by Kalamazoo College faculty.
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Item Richard Koenig: Photographic Prevarications(PhotoEd Magazine, 2010) Russo, FelixOriginally published in PhotoEd, Issue Number 30, Winter 2010.Item Notes from the Field: last stand for semaphore signals(Railway & Locomotive Society, 2023) Koenig, RichardThis piece reports on the current condition of the remaining active semaphore signals on the original route of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in northeast New Mexico. It should be noted that this “short take” article is a follow up to a much more in-depth treatment that Koenig penned for the same publication (Railroad History) four years prior (Issue Number 221, Fall-Winter 2019). In addition to twelve hundred words, Koenig supplies six photographs of the subject, taken in the Land of Enchantment during the spring of 2023.Item City as Metaphor(2022-07-22) Koenig, Richard; Pomarico, Karen GhostlawIn this article, the author Karen Ghostlaw describes the photographic work of Richard Koenig. While the piece is centered on Koenig’s recent project, “City as Metaphor”, it includes previous photographic works for contextualization. This was published though The Pictorial List, a global on-line photography magazine (July 22nd 2022).Item Richard Koenig: See Change: A Memoir(Lenscratch, 2022-07-22) Koenig, RichardIn this article, a memoir of sorts, the author outlines “mutations of a medium [fine art photography in the United States], and one it its disciples, over time”. This covers more than forty years beginning with his formal study of photography at Indiana University in 1979, through his time at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and on to the current time and his latest project, “City as Metaphor.”Item End of street-running era on America’s last interurban: CSS&SB to be double-tracked, grade-separated in Michigan City, Ind.(Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 2022) Koenig, RichardWith a significant re-build of the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend railway line through Michigan City, Indiana, the distinctive street running found there (since 1908) will be lost. The author documents, through text and photographs, the history of the line on the eve of that rebuild.