|
 |
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
Cover. The Journal celebrates the transforming power of art this month, and our Image Editor, Aleisha Kropf. For each issue, including this one, she conceptualizes a cover idea based upon the scientific content and conveys it through the selection of a photograph or other work of art that might move us to action or to reflect further upon its meaning. The cover image this month commemorates the Memorial Ride for cyclist and pedestrian deaths through a photograph taken at City Hall in New York, NY. Throughout this issue, the theme is repeated through included photographs of ghost bikes, which are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are injured or killed on the street. Bicycles are painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash sites, accompanied by small plaques. Ghost bikes serve as reminders of the tragedies that took place on otherwise anonymous street corners and as quiet statements in support of the right of safe travel for cyclists.
Photograph by Justin Shockley. Printed with permission. Image available at http://www.GhostBikes.org.
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |