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How beautiful this place can be
Rare Books
"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.
653120
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Fish-work : the Bering Sea
Rare Books
"Now, at age 31, after fifteen years of working as a commercial fisherman, my childhood notions of the fishing life have been replaced with a reality that is less leisurely than I had imagined, but as rewarding as I had hoped. I began traveling seasonally to Alaska for fishing work as a teenager, and ended up working five summers as a salmon gillnetter in Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet. During that time, I was also studying photography in college. In 2002, with a degree in my pocket, I began looking for a way to merge the fishing and photography sides of my life. I wanted to find a way to use photography to share my commercial fishing experiences with people who perhaps never thought much about where that fish on their plate came from"--From introduction.
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Photojournalisms
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"As a photojournalist who travels extensively around the world, home for me has always been a shifting term, with shifting people and shifting objects vying for my attention. Upon meeting Julie Winokur in 1992, that dynamic was forever altered. When we married in 1994, a pattern of recording journals addressed to Julie was already firmly established. In keeping with the changing times, what began as paper journals was replaced with daily emails by 2000. Encompassing nearly 20 years, this book is a selection of these journal entries from various locations around the world written for my wife. They reflect my deep-seated desire, more like need, to connect to Julie and let her know with some urgency what I had just seen, felt, heard and sometimes recorded in images ... The very act of creating this book touches upon my desire to reach out to others and to report on issues throughout the world ... The depth of my feelings, touched so deeply and so often by the realities I witness, are the testimony I want this collection to reveal"--From introduction by author.
653155
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Vest pocket pictures
Rare Books
"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.
653131
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Retrospective two
Rare Books
"How can a sustained thirty-year career be an aberration? This is a time of turbulence and edge, but should we dismiss someone who knows that and yet consciously chooses to make pictures that offer order, harmony, and respite? The energy that critics may wish to be in his work is expended in the doing, in the creation of over a dozen separate, coherent projects and thousands of single images. With the same discipline that he applies to long distance running, Kenna distills and refines. He is not turning off his critical faculties, but rather employs them to pay homage. The rebel in Kenna responds, 'I derive so much satisfaction from photography precisely because I've had the luxury of not caring what the art world thinks of my work. I have been able to use the medium as a way to help choose my personal journey or pilgrimage through this life. Most of the places I've photographed I chose because I wanted to acknowledge them and indeed pay homage to them...I haven't tried to be different or break any rules. I couldn't care less what the rules are anyway.'"--From introduction.
653194
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John Scott Eldon letter to "My dear Lord,"
Manuscripts
In this letter, the 1st Earl of Eldon is talking about politics and clearly shows his lifelong antagonism towards any form of republicanism. He states "The plant of Republicanism grows rapidly and I grieve to hear that some good & true men are meditating hard on what Regulations it can be best encouraged...."
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How beautiful this place can be

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Retrospective two

John Scott Eldon letter to "My dear Lord,"