This "shadow portrait," produced by tracing the projected silhouette of the sitter, was a popular form of portraiture in the 18th and 19th centuries before the advent of photography.
Victor McElheny, a leading American science writer, has opened his notebooks to trace the project from before its beginning to beyond its end.
Not so when you pick-up and rip through "The Arena". "Ultimately, you can trace the project back to the fact that I've always been a sports fan," said Kohan during an entertaining phone call last week.
If you go, also take a peek at Noelle Tan's show, "Tracing the Invisible" in the project room.
Mr. Bezmozgis said he found photographs of the apprentice farmers on John Deere tractors, and letters tracing the history of the project, which ended after Stalin turned against foreign influence and 17 employees were killed.
Brown's book traces the worm project from its inception, as fascinating for the obsessive, almost nerd-like quality of the researchers as for the unravelling of the worm's wormliness.
I began the project by tracing the movement of cardboard through a trans-Pacific circuitry of trade: I made calls to and visited the Port of Oakland, the Berkeley Recycling Center, the Creative Packaging factory in Hayward, and the International Paper sheet feeder factory in Gilroy.
Even after breaking a hip in 2009 and having a stroke, Mrs. Schwartz, by then using a wheelchair, collaborated with Mr. Bordo and Owen Humpage, an economist at the Cleveland Fed, on a project tracing the history of governmental intervention in currency markets.
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee, assistant professor of Latin Ameri- can and Iberian Cultures, explores Chinese exclusion in Brazil's nation- building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories.
