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Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee (October 4, 1862April 3, 1944) was an American writer and minister. He began his career as a clergyman in New England and the Midwest, becoming a full-time writer in 1896. Lee's writing focused on contemporary cultural developments such as the rise of mass media and technology. Early life and education Gerald Stanley Lee was born on October 4, 1862, in Brockton, Massachusetts. He attended Oberlin College, Middlebury College (graduating in 1885), and Yale Divinity School. Career Until 1896, Lee worked as a minister in New England and Minnesota. After 1896, he was a full-time writer. His first book, ''The Shadow Christ'', was published that year. According to critic Ryan Jay Friedman, Lee's writing in the 1910s argued that Catechesis, Christian education was similar to mass media including advertising, in that both attempted to persuade people to "choose a particular 'good'". Jo-Anne Pemberton compares Lee's ''The Voice of the Machines: An Introduction to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Genthe
Arnold Genthe (8 January 1869 – 9 August 1942) was a German-American photographer, best known for his photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities. Biography Arnold Genthe was born in Berlin, Prussia, to Luise Zober and Hermann Genthe, a professor of Latin and Greek at the Graues Kloster (Grey Monastery) in Berlin. Genthe followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a classically trained scholar; he received a doctorate in philology in 1894 from the University of Jena, where he knew artist Adolph Menzel, his mother's cousin. After emigrating to San Francisco in 1895 to work as a tutor for the son of Baron and Baroness J. Henrich von Schroeder, he taught himself photography. He was intrigued by the Chinese section of the city and photographed its inhabitants, from children to drug addicts, Due to his subjects' possible fear of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
