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Shimon Attie : facts on the ground

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Description: "For Facts on the Ground, I created and staged approximately 30 site-specific installations across Israel and Palestine. The works existed as on-site installations, but were also created largely in-order-to-be-photographed. Each intervention was composed of illuminated text, mostly created by custom-made light boxes; one from mirrored letters. They were sited and installed primarily in and around Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, the Negev desert, and in the occupied West Bank"--From artist's website.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2016]
Call number: 653058
Creator: Attie, Shimon (1957-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 9781590054420

Ashkelon

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"In 1985, the Leon Levy Expedition, under the direction of Lawrence Stager, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, Harvard University, began excavating the ancient site of Ashkelon, a seaport on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 30 miles south of the modern Tel Aviv ... This is the time frame of the structures and artifacts in these pictures"--From introduction.

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Unique Automobile Hotel, San Luis Obispo, Cal

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Image of the Milestone Mo-tel (later renamed the Mo-Tel Inn) on Monterey Street, off of Highway 101, in San Luis Obispo, California, with automobiles parked in front and bell tower. This was the first "motel" ever to be called such and opened in December 1925.

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Ground lease extension

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This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.

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Stripped

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"Media artist Laura Carton, based in New York, first became known for her project “Investor Relations,” an art-world intervention and a working investment club, exploring the clandestine pornography holdings of major United States corporations and the context within which political policies are formed her. The work in her current series “Stripped” is executed by downloading a variety of pornographic images from the Internet, removing the bodies and then digitally reconstructing the backgrounds from the existing evidence. In looking beyond the camouflage of naked flesh, what remain are carefully constructed and over-produced fictions; the mise-en-scènes of domestic space, suburban melodramas, utopian ideals and fantasies. Within the staged, mythic world of pornography, these newly constructed narratives offer a number of sites from which to question underlying assumptions about sexuality, class, race, desire and commodification"--Publisher's description.

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Meetings: Fact sheets

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