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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...
ISBN: 9780909952808
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Concrete 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...
ISBN: 9780295743981
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Order 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...
ISBN: 9780875772400
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Indonesian Splendour / Indische pracht
Four Centuries of Fascination for the Flora of Indonesia / Vier eeuwen fascinatie voor de flora van Indonesie
Bilingual English / DutchIndonesia’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...
ISBN: 9789460224935
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Up 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...
ISBN: 9780295999081
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Menadelook
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...
ISBN: 9780295999333
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Sun, 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,...
ISBN: 9780924335457
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Invocation 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...
ISBN: 9780998911212
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Beneath Cold Seas
The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award Foundation Award for Design and Artistic MeritThis book is a work of art from every possible angle - from the exquisite photographs, to the book's...
ISBN: 9780295994888
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Great Bear Wild
Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
The Great Bear Rainforest is the fabled region that stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from the top of Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer...
ISBN: 9780295994635
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Natural 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,...
ISBN: 9780295994901
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Mary Randlett Landscapes
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...
ISBN: 9780295994062
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Cities of the Dead
The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan
A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion...
ISBN: 9780295993980
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Mary 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...
ISBN: 9780295993973
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Captive 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...
ISBN: 9780924335440
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The Birth of a Republic
China's 1911 Revolution ended the rule of both the 267-year-old Manchu Qing dynasty and the more than 2,000-year-old imperial system, establishing Asia's first, if not lasting, republic. Because...
ISBN: 9780295989402
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Embracing Beauty
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty investigates the transformative experience of the photograph. In this book Deborah Willis explores historical perceptions of beauty and desire...
ISBN: 9780295992518
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The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs
Richard Hugo visited places and wrote about them. He wrote about towns: White Center and La Push in Washington; Wallace and Cataldo in Idaho; Milltown, Philipsburg, and Butte in Montana. Often his...
ISBN: 9780295989648
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Seattle on the Spot
The Photographs of Al Smith
Al Smith’s photography chronicled the jazz clubs, family gatherings, neighborhood events, and individuals who made up Seattle’s African American community in the mid-twentieth century. Seattle...
ISBN: 9780692885093
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Laura Aguilar
Show and Tell
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,...
ISBN: 9780895511683
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