collection + [RE]collections
MARK SPURLOCK

The most satisfying thing about helping create "collections + [RE]collections" is that--while the site uses all the tricks and gadgetry of computers, the Web, and multimedia--it gives them a human face. The high-tech medium in no way overshadows the real story here: one man's singular experience of a global event. The Web, however, accesses a potentially wider audience than a conventionally published book. And unlike the printed page, "collections + [RE]collections" is dynamic and interactive, allowing its audience to share their own experiences with one another. So clearly the technology has its advantages. Yet I think it's evident that the approach with this project was not "here's what the technology will let us do, so let's do it that way." Rather, and more appropriately, it was "this is the story we need to tell; how do we make the technology let us tell it." To the extent that we succeeded in telling William Yenofsky's story--and the story of so many men of his generation--I am most proud.


William Yenofsky
   photography
   writing

Susan E. Metros
   project direction
   graphic design
   concepts

Heather A. Locke Walker
   web design
   programming
   research
   concepts

Mark Spurlock
   Javascripting
   CGI programming
   concepts

J. Seth Johnson
   web programming
   media production

Alec Riedl
   web programming