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Hoda Afshar
A Curve is a Broken Line
Through her photographs, Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her bodies of work are a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry. Alert to the duplicity...
ISBN: 9781741741674
more detailsFull Light and Perfect Shadow
The Photography of Chao-Chen Yang
This is the first study of the work of Chao-Chen Yang (1909–1969), an important Seattle photographer who gained national prominence in the mid-twentieth century.
Born in Hangzhou, China, Yang received his art training at the...
ISBN: 9780998911250
more detailsChristina Fernandez
Multiple Exposures
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
more detailsGreat Bear Wild
Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
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
more detailsLatinx Photography in the United States
A Visual History
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
more detailsLa Raza
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
more detailsOrder of Imagination
The Photographs of Olivia Parker
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
more detailsApparitions
Photography and Dissemination
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
more detailsIndonesian Splendour / Indische pracht
Four Centuries of Fascination for the Flora of Indonesia / Vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesie
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
more detailsSun, Shadows, Stone
The Photography of Terry Toedtemeier
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
more detailsInvocation of Beauty
The Life and Photography of Soichi Sunami
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
more detailsConcrete Mama
Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
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
more detailsCaptive Light
The Life and Photography of Ella E. McBride
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
more detailsMenadelook
An Inupiat Teacher's Photographs of Alaska Village Life, 1907-1932
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
more detailsUp Here
The North at the Center of the World
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
more detailsThe Photograph and Australia
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
more detailsNatural Magic
Salted Paper Prints in North America
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
more detailsBeneath Cold Seas
The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest
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
more detailsPhotographs of the Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum
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
more detailsMary Randlett Portraits
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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