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Great 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 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 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 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 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 detailsMary 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 may take for granted, Randlett sees as...
ISBN: 9780295994062
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 detailsThe 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 war correspondence was not an established profession...
ISBN: 9780295989402
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 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
more detailsThe 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 visits lasted little...
ISBN: 9780295989648
more detailsOut [o] Fashion Photography
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 through artistic and ethnographic imagery and the role individual photographers...
ISBN: 9780295992518
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 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 detailsSeattle 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 on the Spot features highlights from Smith’s legacy along with...
ISBN: 9780692885093
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