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Reflection and Revelation |
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Introduction |
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| Like episodes in a long-running TV
serial, a century’s worth of yearbooks tells an ongoing story, one that
evolved over decades, getting reinterpreted in light of new theories of
history and global social trends. Physically,
the books get redesigned in response to developing technologies.
Developments in the printing industry and photography impact the books’ graphic presentation. The nation’s history is reflected in both the design, e.g. cover images, quality of paper stock, and the content that gets recorded – or doesn’t – in a particular issue. Social commentaries emerge as our eyes scan the pages and detect shifting images of the student body, the campus landscape, and the academic structure. If one yearbook is a snapshot in time like a family photo album, then the whole series of books is a motion picture, like a documentary film about the multiple generations that comprise the Illinois Institute of Technology family. |
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| Page last updated on July 17, 2000. |
