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Aspen Mays, Dionne Lee, Karolina Karlic, Mercedes Dorame, Tarrah Krajnak : field notes from Unseen California

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Description: "In their ongoing interdisciplinary work, exhibited for the first time, the artists of Unseen California respond to the role photography has played in defining attitudes toward the iconic Western landscape by its omission of multi-valent histories embedded in the land. The dominant canon of American landscape photography is inextricable from a colonial orientation to the land and its resources: from the photographic surveys of the 19th century, to the "untouched" vistas depicted in the 20th century, and later the encroaching sprawl of the built environment documented in New Topographics. Rather, the artists here propose new epistemologies and ways of belonging."--Exhibit website, https://www.penumbrafoundation.org/project-gallery-current
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 2023
Call number: 642345a
Provenance: Purchased from theretherenow, August 2024.

Language has no weather : field notes from Unseen California

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"Unseen California is a multi-pronged arts research initiative utilizing the University of California Natural Reserve System through site specific research performed by a collaborative artist cohort, generating opportunities for field-based arts teaching and learning, public programming, and the creation of artworks. This book features the artists' explorations in progress--their field notes--across media, generated from site work and ongoing dialogues. In this context, field notes are understood as fragments toward knowing, and these are embodied, subjective observations that might speculate and certainly express wonder, but also recognize that interpretation will often happen later, elsewhere."--Publisher's website, www.shop.theretherenow.com

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Athens-Rosecrans Oil Field, Los Angeles, California. May, 1925

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Panoramic view of oil wells and derricks in the Athens and Rosecrans oil field in Los Angeles (present-day Gardena, California). Text on the photograph reads "Athens-Rosecrans Oil Field, Los Angeles, California. May, 1925 – One Year Old, making 25,000 bbls. daily from 50 wells. Has deepest producing well in world, the General Petroleum Corp., Amestoy No. 1, pumping from 6,737 feet.” All of the oil wells are numbered and identified by name (136 total), with names including Union, J. Paul Getty, E. J. Miley, George F. Getty, Mohawk, Walter H. Fisher, etc. Streets are also marked: 131st Street, 132nd Street, 133rd Street, 135th Street and Hoover Street.

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Traveling & Military Map Of Sonora From private field notes

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From the Henry Wagner collection. Note in folder "Mexico - Cherry (C & J) Report of the San Juan del Rio Ranche, in Sonoras with account of the Silver Mines, etc. 8 vo. pp 138 with a large and fine folding map entitled 'Traveling & Military Map from Private field notes' and other smaller ones, Cincinnati 1866 $6.50. A rare volume. Historical account of the various mines, account of the country, Routes, early history, description of towns, history of title, etc." "From private field notes, by Cummings & James Cherry, Geolgists and Mining Engineers, Pittsburgh, Penn. 1867" HL sticker: 126652. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Scenes from the Trek to California [copy prints]

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This collection contains 152 photographs of the family of Leonard John Rose (1827-1899), the Rose family's ranch and vineyard "Sunny Slope" in San Gabriel, California, their residences, and horses owned by the family, chiefly dating from the late 19th century. Many of the photographs are cabinet card studio portraits of family members, especially the children of L. J. and Amanda Rose, including Nina Rose Wachtel (and her husband John V. Wachtel), Guy Rose, Mabel Rose Dixon, Maud Rose Easton. Many of the card photographs have imprints of Los Angeles photography studios including Steckel & Lamson and T.G. Schumacher. Among the photographs of the Sunny Slope Farm are stereographs by W.M. Godfrey (Volume 1, Items 13a and 14-14a) and stereographs and unmounted prints by Carleton Watkins (Album 1, Items 17-29 and 75 and 76).

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Albums of studio portraits from Livingston, Montana, and Placerville, California

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A collection of 7 albums chiefly containing late 19th and early 20th century studio portraits of individuals of various ages, with several group portraits, costumed scenes, and dogs and other animals, as well as some snapshots of people and animals in residential areas. A number of photographs have the imprint of photographer Geo. W. Potter (Livingston, Montana, and Placerville, California). In addition to Potter, over 70 different photography studios are represented in the albums, primarily from Northern California and Livingston, including Geo. H. Gilbert (Placerville, Calif.), G.D. Morse (San Francisco, Calif.), Bradley & Rulofson (San Francisco, Calif.), Finn (Livingston, Mont.), Al. Smith (Sacrament, Calif.), Charles Lainer (San Francisco, Calif.), J.A. Todd (Sacramento, Calif.), Saunders (Ukiah, Calif.), and Simas (Placerville, Calif.).

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Paul Outerbridge : new color photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955

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The publication of Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948-1955 marks the discovery of a previously unknown and unpublished body of work by one of America s earliest masters of color photography. Outerbridge built his extraordinary reputation by making virtuoso carbro-color prints of nudes and still lifes, mainly in the studio, during the 1930s. In the late 1940s and 1950s he took his camera to the streets, crossing the border between California and Mexico and photographing the people and places he found. In the tradition of such photographers as Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Anton Bruehl, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, all of whom made significant photographic forays into Mexico, Outerbridge ventured south in his 1949 black Cadillac, frequenting the seaport towns along the Baja peninsula. Shooting in bold, luminous Kodachrome, his photographs explore the quirkiness of 1950s leisure culture and examine the blending of two interwoven societies at a distinctive time in history. From governors to gauchos, and from stevedores to bathing beauties, Outerbridge captured the humanity, and occasionally the absurdity, of people as they gathered at weddings, pool parties, and picture spots. As brilliant and innovative today as when they were made, these images demonstrate a breathtaking mastery of the new art of color photography, and Outerbridge s characteristic style and dramatic use of color anticipated the work of photographers who strove a quarter of a century later to develop a similar, bold new color vocabulary"--Publisher's description.

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Aspen Mays, Dionne Lee, Karolina Karlic, Mercedes Dorame, Tarrah Krajnak : field notes from Unseen California

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