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In the road

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Description: "For Miyoshi, who continues to travel widely as if enticed by the images in his mind, chance encounters are an inevitability. Wherever he trains his lens, there seem to be subjects that linger with carefree expressions, as if having realized their own fate. So fine are his prints, which conjure a quiet monochrome world, that one can almost hear their presence and breathing. The catalogue contains 69 pictures that offer fresh insights into the origins of Kozo Miyoshi"--Publisher's description.
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Publication date: [1999]
Call number: 653209
Creator: Miyoshi, Kozo (1947-)(Opens in new tab)
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Possession

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"Langer follows the tradition of the flâneur-photographer. His images are, as he puts it, the product of 'walking the streets alone as a stranger in a strange land.' To shadow Langer on his walks is to visit the haunts of amusement parks, lonely bars, nighttime streets and alleys, beautiful women and their chaperones, gardens, hotels, and supper clubs. Both the still life and the intimate figure study are frequent objects of his quiet gaze. Regardless of their subject, Langer's images return us to a place where what happens in front of the lens is unanticipated and distinctly photographic"--Publisher's description.

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The three roads

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"This is the story of a man whose sanity and chance for happiness depend on his ability to recapture his unremembered past. The Doctors know that the reason for Brett Taylors's mental suffering is guilt, but they point out that although guilt is normally thought of as the result of sin, it may really be its cause; their theory being that the sense of some guilt may have worked on Brett until he was driven to crime. Following the belief that nothing in a person's life is ever really forgotten--in a sense that with the right encouragement any memory can be recalled--Brett is determined to trace his life back to the point where his memory failed, and to find the reason for it. Paula, who knows what happened, believes that his mental health is not strong enough to stand the strain of knowing what was done. She knows, and is being blackmailed because she knows, that the cause of all his suffering is the mental shrinking of a brutal unsolved murder, and she is very much afraid"--Dust jacket.

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William McKinley, Columbus, Ohio, letter to Walter J. Ballard, General Electric Co., Schenectady, New York :

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McKinley writes that he appreciates Ballard's expressions and is grateful to hear what he has to say about their meeting. Includes addressed portion of envelope.

mssHM 13406

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John Burroughs letters to "Dear Sir,"

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John Burroughs wrote this letter from West Park, New York. It reads: "Yours of the 20th was duly read. I am writing very little these days, and am cautious about binding myself by promises. But if I should chance to have anything that would be suitable for your columns I will let you have it. Very sincerely John Burroughs."

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Sweep out cottage

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"Although taken over a five-year period, the photographs in Sweep Out Cottage timelessly evoke one single summer's day in Little Compton, Rhode Island. Here, with the wistful sense of an earlier era, is evidence of two people who love the simple things in life: gardening, reading, eating and drinking in their beautiful holiday surroundings. For some years now Peter Jones and his wife have rented the sweep out cottage every July, and in this quiet colonial hamlet they have realized a dream of summer as it should be, with the breeze off the water, the fragrance of flowers and soft fruit, a good book, a favorite chair, and the breakfast table set for another idyllic day. Jones has been involved with many aspects of photography all his adult life, but it is here in Sweep Out Cottage that he has found his own true artistic inspiration. The work in this, his first monograph, is not only a celebration of a place and a way of life; it is also an homage to a happy marriage and a time of blissful serenity"--Publisher's description.

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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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