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"A self-confessed 'plain dresser,' Katharine Adams instead dazzles the world with the fabulous collection that is Couturier Dreams. Gorgeous floating emulsion 'garments' dance on every page, with a life and style all of their own. Essentially self-taught, Adams makes collaged emulsion images by removing Polaroid photographs from their paper backing and placing them into baths of warm water. She then remounts them onto Arches Watercolor paper, coaxing them into a suggestive silhouette -- sometimes taking up to six hours to achieve what she wants. The results are joyful, playful, sensual and original, with a sense of freedom that is gloriously liberating. Spending long hours in the darkroom, Adams describes getting into a dream state as vital to her work. 'A type of alchemy occurs,' she explains, 'when the image is set free, floating, and my journey starts'"--Publisher's description.
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The lathe of heaven
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George Orr has dreams that come true--dreams that change reality. He dreams that the aunt who is sexually harassing him is killed in a car crash, and wakes to find that she died in a wreck six weeks ago, in another part of the country. But a far darker dream drives George into the care of a psychotherapist--a dream researcher who doesn't share George's ambivalence about altering reality.
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"City of Dreams"
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4 items: 40-pp. booklet, Memories in the City of Dreams by Ed Ainsworth, "A tribute to Harry Chandler," 1959 ; complete (4-pp.) issue of Whizz Bang Times, 10/28/1930, a spoof of LAT featuring outrageous stories and humorous photos ; approx. 40-pp. manuscript headed "Prelude to a Memory," which appears to be all or part of the text of Memories in the City of Dreams (see above) - a lead article refers to "Arry Chanslor" (with gag photo of Harry Chandler) as having "returned from a six months' pleasure trip..." ; tear sheet from Among Ourselves, 7/1959, pp. 3 has story ("Olvera Street book salutes Harry Chandler" ) on Ainsworth booklet.
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Metaphysics in jars : collagraphs
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"The collagraphs are a collaborative project. They are called collagraphs because the image is that of a collage, and the actual print is a photograph. Stephen Aldrich creates collages primarily from nineteenth century woodcuts and steel engravings, taken from children's, scientific, art, and travel books, encyclopedias, and dictionaries ... Walton Mendelson photographs the collages. The photographic surface tends to smoothen the image, making it appear as if it had been engraved at one time"--From introduction.
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Ella Middleton Shute letters to Louie Earle Williams
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Series of letters from Ella Shute to her friend Louie Earle Williams, written when Ella was living in Wheatfields, Arizona, "12 miles from the mines" (she asks Louie to direct her letters to Globe City). Ella writes of her family life, their many illnesses ("every one here seems like dead people," she wrote in 1876) since moving "to the mines," and the cost of goods. She also writes of her son Walter (whom she refers to as Charles Clifton until 1878), including an incident where he was run over by a wagon wheel in 1879, and the birth of her son Eugene in 1878. She notes that her father, brothers Frank and Henry, and husband George are "at work in the mines," but that "we are not making any thing only a living." Frank also briefly worked at the Miami Mill Company until it burned down in May 1879. Ella speculated that it might have been arson, and lamented that the incident had caused many families to move away and had detrimentally affected the Middletons' and Shutes' mining interests. She also writes of dry conditions in August 1879, and that "the Indians ha[ve] burned every thing out and it will take a great deal of rains to bring every thing out again." Ella writes that she is unsure of the population of Wheatfields but that there are "so many young men down here that wants to get married but there is...few girls and they won't get married unless they get a rich man." She also mentions that her brother Henry and sister Hattie have gone away to school at the Picket Poste, and urges Louie to have her father move their family to Arizona. Also included is a letter to Louie from her friend Jennie A. Huckaby in Alexander, Illinois. Jennie writes that she envies Louie's work in a milliner's shop ("let's both learn [the trade] then we can set up a shop together"),that she hopes to be well enough to return home to Iowa soon, and of her "cherished wish" to go to California. She concludes that there "is nothing going on here except a negro excursion to Chicago."
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The peace warriors of two thousand and three
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"We are delighted to announce the publication of our second monograph by Carl Chiarenza, whose work as artist, educator, art historian and critic has been a significant influence on the American photography scene for many years. He made these powerful collages in 2003, a time when, he says, 'the world once again went mad.' Coming out of his sense of impotence and frustration at world events, these collages shed their abstraction and do indeed resemble warriors, but these are warriors for peace. 'Chance,' says Chiarenza, 'structured these images as much as chance structured our world. But chance itself is structured by human beings'"--Publisher's description.
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