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Acid Bloom

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Description: "It's the moment I feel like a plant, or like a bug alighting on a flower, that I release the shutter. When I'm not in this heightened state, I may shoot a beautiful flower beautifully, but that is all. For me, the process of photographing a flower is something more, something that goes beyond the flower. When I'm photographing well, I am always floating on another plane--a place between this world and the world beyond"--From artist's introduction.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2003]
Call number: 653213
Creator: Ninagawa, Mika (1972-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590050665; 9781590050668
Provenance: Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.

Flowers

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"I had been a photographer for over thirty years and I had never taken pictures of flowers, mostly because I had always been a black-and-white photographer and photographing flowers in black-and-white seemed like an insult to the flowers. One of the reasons why I only worked in black-and-white is that I'm red-green colorblind and I've found it difficult to color balance prints in the darkroom. I noticed, though, that with Photoshop, even I could easily color balance images in the computer ... In the summer of 2004 I finally decided I had done enough darkroom work and closed it down ... All pictures were taken in the Grandview community garden, about one square block in size"--From introduction.

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Melting point

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"I live in a meltdown period, when old norms of politics, religion and even photography are changing. Melting is a transformation, one form dissolves, another emerges. When I face endings I sometimes fear what comes after. As I raise the camera to my eye and see the world's complexity, my fears melt. I'm graced with fresh energy. In working from the paradox of a curious melding of beauty and fear these photographs emerged"--From introduction.

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shore review no. 14

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Publisher: The Shore Press (Milwaukee, Wis.) Related Content: "what I read about when I'm not feeling good" (p. 29, poem) Note: "(1975)" written in ms. in upper right corner of p. 1. Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski

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Chronological File - November

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Approx. 35 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: several letters of regret when NBW did not accept invitations to speak or sit on panels due to, in his words, "my new role as consultant to Otis Chandler...makes my schedule so uncertain that I cannot undertake firm commitments"; (11/16) brief letter to Pierre Salinger (then living in France); in one letter (11/16) NBW reveals, "I'm usually at The Times Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, unless I'm on an out-of-town assignment for Otis Chandler"; (11/9) letter to Paul Ziffren on Picasso and his art; etc.

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The Burr McIntosh monthly for May is in bloom

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Image of an advertisement for the Burr McIntosh periodical May 1903 issue; woman in an elegant dress and flower-adorned hat picks flowers in a garden, using her skirt to hold them.

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Employees - Foley, John

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1 item: 11-p. Q&A with John Foley, undated. Opens, "I'm the Assistant Managing Editor, I deal mainly with special projects."

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