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Christina Fernandez

Christina Fernandez

Multiple Exposures

By Rebecca Epstein

Christina Fernandez sees herself as equally artist and storyteller, one who employs photography to explore social and physical isolation and estrangement within marginalized communities while experimenting with composition and form. Her art is shaped by...

ISBN: 9780895512017

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Great Bear Wild

Great Bear Wild

Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest

By Ian McAllister. Foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister takes us on a deeply...

ISBN: 9780295749143

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Latinx Photography in the United States

Latinx Photography in the United States

A Visual History

By Elizabeth Ferrer

Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people....

ISBN: 9780295747637

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La Raza

La Raza

By Colin Gunckel, Luis C. Garza, Amy Scott

La Raza, launched in 1967 in the basement of an Eastside LA church, was conceived as a tool for community-based organizing during the early days of the Chicano movement. The all-volunteer staff of the newspaper—and...

ISBN: 9780895511652

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Order of Imagination

Order of Imagination

The Photographs of Olivia Parker

By Sarah Kennel

For more than forty years, Olivia Parker’s poetic and alluring photographs have transformed the everyday and made the familiar strange. In deceptively simple still lives and complex, dreamlike constructions that incorporate a rich variety of...

ISBN: 9780875772400

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Apparitions

Apparitions

Photography and Dissemination

By Geoffrey Batchen

An engaging and provocative account of photography’s first commercial applications in England and their global implications. This book addresses a persistent gap in the study of photography’s history, moving beyond an appreciation of single breakthrough...

ISBN: 9780909952808

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Indonesian Splendour / Indische pracht

Indonesian Splendour / Indische pracht

Four Centuries of Fascination for the Flora of Indonesia / Vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesie

By Dennis A-Tjak and Bea Brommer

Bilingual English / Dutch

Indonesia’s flora—with more than 45,000 plant varieties—is one of the most abundant in the world. Photographer Dennis A-Tjak has been making a name for himself as the portraitist of old flower varieties...

ISBN: 9789460224935

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Sun, Shadows, Stone

Sun, Shadows, Stone

The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier

By Julia Dolan, Rock Hushka, Toby Jurovics, Jennifer Kabat, Andrew Meigs, Sandra S. Phillips, and Prudence Roberts

Photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier (1947–2008) began his career in the 1970s with extensive photographic experiments to capture his close circle of friends and colleagues. Largely self-taught, he began to attract wider critical attention with...

ISBN: 9780924335457

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Invocation of Beauty

Invocation of Beauty

The Life and Photography of Soichi Sunami

By David F. Martin

Invocation of Beauty accompanies the first full-scale exhibition of this important American photographer. Drawing almost exclusively from the family archives, the book includes many images that have been previously unpublished.

Soichi Sunami was born in Okayama,...

ISBN: 9780998911212

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Concrete Mama

Concrete Mama

Prison Profiles from Walla Walla

By Ethan Hoffman, Dan Berger

Journalists John McCoy and Ethan Hoffman spent four months inside the walls of the Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in 1978, just as Washington, once a leader in prison reform, abandoned its focus on...

ISBN: 9780295743981

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Captive Light

Captive Light

The Life and Photography of Ella E. McBride

By Margaret E. Bullock and David F. Martin

Internationally acclaimed fine-art photographer Ella McBride (1862–1965) played an important role in the Northwest’s photography community and was a key figure in the national and international pictorialist photography movements. Despite her many accomplishments, which included...

ISBN: 9780924335440

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Laura Aguilar

Laura Aguilar

Show and Tell

By Rebecca Epstein, Sybil Venegas

Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell surveys the career of Laura Aguilar, a Chicana photographer who is most widely known for black-and-white nude self-portraits that are frank and self-assertive, yet deeply sensitive and poetic. In photographs...

ISBN: 9780895511683

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Menadelook

Menadelook

An Inupiat Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932

By Eileen Norbert

Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document life in Wales in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia, in the early 1900s. Photographs of Inupiat life in...

ISBN: 9780295999333

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Up Here

Up Here

The North at the Center of the World

By Julie Decker, Kirsten J. Anderson

The North is a complex place that is beautiful, moody, and anything but untouched. The Arctic, part of the international North that is pivotal to the world because of climate change, is no longer a...

ISBN: 9780295999081

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The Photograph and Australia

The Photograph and Australia

By Judy Annear. With Geoffrey Batchen, Michael Aird, Katherine Davidson, Jane Lydon, and Daniel Palmer

Visually rich with fine reproductions and high-level production, this book tells the many stories of photography in Australia over the last 175 years. It will examine the sense of wonder which the photograph can still...

ISBN: 9781741741162

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Natural Magic

Natural Magic

Salted Paper Prints in North America

By Jordan Bear, Russell Lord, and Lisa Volpe. Introduction by Keith F. Davis

The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes, simultaneously. Though using different materials and methods (the salted paper print was patented, while daguerreotype was not) still both achieved the...

ISBN: 9780295994901

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Beneath Cold Seas

Beneath Cold Seas

The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest

By David Hall. Introduction by Sarika Cullis-Suzuki. Foreword by Christopher Newbert

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Foundation Award for Design and Artistic Merit

This book is a work of art from every possible angle - from the exquisite photographs, to the book's design, to its...

ISBN: 9780295994888

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Photographs of the Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum

Photographs of the Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum

By Janneke van Dijk, Rob Jongmans, Anouk Mansfeld, Steven Vink, and Pim Westerkamp. With Wimo Ambala Bayang

Photographs of the Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum offers a comprehensive introduction to one of the most important collections of colonial photography in the world. There is no other collection at the Tropenmuseum that...

ISBN: 9789460221934

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Mary Randlett Portraits

Mary Randlett Portraits

By Frances McCue. Photographs by Mary Randlett

Known for both her landscapes and portraits, Mary Randlett began documenting iconic Northwest artists like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves in 1949. In 1963, Theodore Roethke asked her to photograph him in his Seattle home--hers...

ISBN: 9780295993973

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Mary Randlett Landscapes

Mary Randlett Landscapes

By Mary Randlett, Ted D’Arms

Mary Randlett's photographic vision of the Northwest is big-hearted, intricate, and tender and fully inhabited by the animals, tides, forests, mountains, and spirits that dwell there. What others may take for granted, Randlett sees as...

ISBN: 9780295994062

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