Background
Orvell was born on January 9, 1944 in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of Samuel (a commercial artist) and Mary (Bass) Orvell.
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
Miles received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1964.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Miles studied at Harvard University and got a Master of Arts in 1965. Finally he received Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970.
(This is a perceptive study of the relationship between te...)
This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080784246X/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(150 years of American photography come alive in this exci...)
150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them.
https://www.amazon.com/American-Photography-Oxford-History-Art-ebook/dp/B0035YPIMS/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working fo...)
Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working for the federal government fanned out across the country to record American life in pictures. Among them were some of the great documentary photographers in American history - including Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Marion Post Wolcott. This massive photographic project, carried out primarily under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) and later preserved at the Library of Congress, was unrivaled in scope: no comparable attempt to document life in this country has ever been made. Times of Sorrow and Hope is devoted to the Pennsylvania photographs in the FSA-OWI collection.
https://www.amazon.com/Times-Sorrow-Hope-Pennsylvania-Photographic/dp/0271022523/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestl...)
In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-Main-Street-Community-ebook/dp/B009LPY54M/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Rethinking the American City brings together leading scho...)
Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities. Rethinking the American City offers a lively and fascinating survey of contemporary thinking about cities in a transnational context. Utilizing an innovative format, each chapter opens with an iconic image and includes a brief and provocative essay on a single topic followed by an extended dialogue among all the essayists. Topics range from energy use, design, and digital media to transportation systems and housing to public art, urban ruins, and futurist visions. By engaging with key contemporary concerns - public and private space, sustainability, ethnic and racial divisions, and technology - this volume illuminates how global society has imagined American urban life.
https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-American-City-International-Architecture/dp/081224561X/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photog...)
For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photographs that are widely celebrated for their powerful depictions of the American landscape and its dramatic transformation and despoilment by humans. His newest collection, Wilderness to Wasteland, presents four series of previously unpublished and unexhibited photographs from Hanson’s early work, made between 1982 and 1987.
https://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Wasteland-David-T-Hanson/dp/0692493727/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Orvell was born on January 9, 1944 in New York City, New York, United States. He is the son of Samuel (a commercial artist) and Mary (Bass) Orvell.
Miles received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1964. He also studied at Harvard University and got a Master of Arts in 1965. Finally he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970.
Miles started as a professor of English and American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, since 1969. He was a visiting professor at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia during 1986-1987. He held a position of a professor of University Copenhagen, Denmark in 1988.
In different years Miles was the director of summer seminar for school teachers at National Endowment for Humanities, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999.
He wrote his first work in 1972, it was Invisible Parade: The Fiction of Flannery O’Connor. In 1991 it was published with new preface as Flannery O’Connor: An Introduction. In 1989 he prepared The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. Later, together with his wife Gabriella Ibieta he worked under Inventing America: Readings in Identity and Culture.
(In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestl...)
2012(Rethinking the American City brings together leading scho...)
2013(Between 1935 and 1946 a group of photographers working fo...)
2003(150 years of American photography come alive in this exci...)
2003(This is a perceptive study of the relationship between te...)
1989(For 30 years, David T. Hanson (born 1948) has made photog...)
2016Orvell is a member of American Studies Association.
On May 31, 1987 Miles married Gabriella Ibieta. Their children: Ariana, Dylan.