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How beautiful this place can be
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"The place is South Africa. It is home to my family it is where I was raised ... I left. I left for professional reasons, to pursue picture-making in the capital of photography, New York City. I have been living outside of South Africa for eleven years now, but have returned annually to make pictures there over the past five years ... The attempts to represent the complexity of South Africa by photographing its diverse constituents seemed too obvious an approach ... I began to photograph my family and stayed with that subject, occasionally including the lives of close friends ... The text that accompanies some of the images in the book is drawn from excerpts from my own and extended family's letters ... In this book, the three specific locales I explore are: home interiors, gardens, and open landscape. Within each milieu are intersecting images and actions that both remind me of my personal story and act as a wider lens on how we, as a group, have projected our culture and history upon the land and its structures"--From introduction.
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Poo-chi
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Artist's Statement: "My artwork deals with the interaction between the real and the imaginary. My images arouse complex emotional responses: excitement, fear, and disgust. Extended viewing of my work reveals illusion and proves that seeing is deceiving. In the Poo Chi series, I transform adult (both male and female) anatomy into provocatively suggestive young girl's anatomy to elicit forbidden desires. The images reveal a child's desire for adult attention and at the same time expose adult fears of desire towards a sexualized child. Poo-Chi seduces the viewer to consider the ubiquity of forbidden desires. The imagery suggests penetration, however, no orifices exist within the image -- they only exist within the viewer's mind."
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Vest pocket pictures
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"A summarization of thoughts: my birthday, a Vest Pocket Kodak camera on my 23rd year. There were no ensuing years of 'photography'--except as a matter of curiosity. I discovered composition, even among prosaic sewer pipes, drab refuse incinerators, playful groups of friends, mountain hiking vistas. Now, decades in retrospect, my 'statements' have come alive at Craig Krull's Gallery. Viewed in an exhibit, they were acclaimed for their 'originality', 'boldness', and 'uniqueness' of my viewing of 'everyday' life. The culmination of three years of those essays of my life's 'adventures' occurred when I was taken by an architect to see a house by Richard Neutra. The prints I made from the six views I took so impressed Neutra that I was asked to photograph more of his designs. On a Saturday, March 5th, 1936 I became a photographer!"--From introduction.
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James Penniman petition
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"The humble address" of James Penniman before "the Judges of the Quarter Session, to sit by adjournment at Boston Apr. 30, 1722." The testimony was given in answer "to a Presentment for not attending the Publick Worship of God." Acknowledging that the "Presentiment is just," Penniman added that it was issued to a year ago "when I was some prejudice of our worthy minister (which ithen though I had just Reason for, tho' now I think otherwise)" and asked to "Remitt the fine the Law Justly Demands, believing that my Reformation will be more pleasing, and acceptable to your Honrs. than my Money."
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The adventures of Guille and Belinda and the enigmatic meaning of their dreams
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"I spent my childhood summers at my father's farm outside Buenos Aires ... My parents sold that farm in 1981, and it would be a long time until I returned to the countryside. When I did, it was to their new smaller farm to the south of Buenos Aires, and I was older, just back from a year studying photography in New York. One day my father took me along for a short drive to have someone fix his broken windmill pump. We drove a few kilometers and slowed down near a group of trees. A pack of wild-looking dogs rushed out, jumping and scratching at the pick-up truck doors, and a round woman opened a flimsy wire gate and walked towards us, both smiling and shrieking at the dogs to shut up. It was Juana. I spent the next few years visiting Juana constantly, photographing her animals and listening to her tales of days long gone, her musings on life and on the Bible ...There were always many visitors at Juana's... The most regular visitors were her grown daughters Pachi and Chica ...They'd come over with their youngest daughters Belinda and Guillermina ... Beli and Guille were always running, climbing, chasing chickens and rabbits. Sometimes I'd take their picture just so they'd leave me alone and stop scaring the animals away, but mostly I would shoo them out of the frame. I was indifferent to them until the summer of 1999, when I found myself spending almost every day with them. They were nine and ten years old, and one day, instead of asking them to move aside, I let them stay"--From introduction.
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A royal salute of 21, from Snob-Hall
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ESTC T207143 ; Signed pseudonymously: Crispin. ; Verse - "O, bless my poor heart, when I think on a king,". ; In this edition the price, enclosed in brackets, and the words "Entered at Stationer's-Hall", in square brackets, are at foot. ; A satire on George III and the monarchy.
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How beautiful this place can be

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James Penniman petition

The adventures of Guille and Belinda and the enigmatic meaning of their dreams

A royal salute of 21, from Snob-Hall