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Inner city
Rare Books
"Having photographed since he was 16, and having exhibited and published his photographic art for almost 35 years, Mills is a mid-career artist who has produced three distinct but interlocking series. He is best known for the surreal photomontages and collages. The other two series are the ongoing affair, through photography, with his wife Mary Del Popolo, and black and white street work, out of which 'Inner City,' the photographs featured here, was conceived. The work in this book begins with Mills walking the streets of Washington, DC, with his 35-mm camera. People and their detritus are the focal points of these pictures. His subjects are not Washington's elite, but those whose situations in life are more peripheral and vulnerable. The majority of the images portray children, street prophets, handicapped beggars, amputees, and the homeless as well as those who are mentally unstable or distraught"--From essay by Anne Tucker ("On the edge of horror and beauty").
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James Mills letter to H.W. Nixon
Manuscripts
Letter from James Mills, Jr., to H.W. Nixon of the Citrus Historical Committee giving a brief biography of Mills' father, James Mills Sr. The biography focuses on Mills Sr.'s experiences with the citrus industry in California, including his various business associates and organizations. Written on James Mills Orchards Company letterhead.
mssHM 73660
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The miracle of silence
Rare Books
"Toshiko Okanoue was active in the 1950s, producing eye-catching collages made from magazine clippings. The parallels between her compositions and aspects of European surrealism was purely coincidental at first, but after meeting Shuzo Takiguchi, the leader of the surrealist movement in Japan, her keen sensitivity to shape and distinct feminine sensibility evolved further. She began to use photos to form backgrounds to her images, in which buildings, landscapes, and other elements combine to create bizarre and mysterious spaces where dramas unfold. Her expressive fragments, mementos of society and fashion which in turn reflect the era, are a major element in her creativity"--Publisher's description.
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The man and the tree : epic of the navel orange and Luther C. Tibbets
Manuscripts
Mills' monograph covers her father's life including his move to Riverside, California, his navel orange crops, and the founding of the Riverside Land & Irrigating Company. Mills also spends much time on her father's legal troubles that eventually led to him losing the majority of his property. Mills talks in general about the navel orange industry in California, California history, Riverside, San Bernardino, irrigation, and John Wesley North. The monograph includes photographs and maps of land owned by Tibbets. Accompanying the monograph is two volumes of court transcripts of cases involving Tibbets, both in San Bernardino and Riverside from 1875 to 1899.
mssHM 67903-67905
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Zen in the art of writing
Rare Books
In a series of essays, Bradbury discusses his career and his compulsion to write. Nine essays discuss the joy of writing, the writing process, inspiration, creativity, and the circumstances surrounding the writing of several of his works
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Darkness at noon
Rare Books
Rubashov is arrested at night, taken to prison, interrogated, re-interrogated, and is induced to confess to fantastic crimes and conspiracies, then given a public trial and shot. Some five or six weeks elapse between his imprisonment and death, and the tension of those weeks is very powerfully communicated. To the drama of Rubashov's prison-conditioned mind is added a grim description of the G.P.U. method of political interrogation.
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