Mountain dream tarot : a deck of 78 photographic cards

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  The observer

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  "In April 2005, Bea Nettles was the von Hess Visiting Artist at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. During her residency, with the help of the gifted staff and graduate students, she produced a new artists book, 'The Observer'. This small palm-sized book has photographs of Nettles every decade, from a girl of ten to a woman in her fifties. The eyes are cut out to reveal alternately the young eyes in the older face, then the older eyes in the younger face. It is a humorous, jarring, but truthful study of the process of aging"--Artist's website, viewed on November 6, 2015.

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  Photo cards

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  Southern California Edison produced photo cards arranged by category for company use. Each photo card – consisting of a gelatin silver print or prints affixed to a board – has a negative number printed in the top right-hand corner. All images in this series – either as a negative or a photo card - were digitized and are available in the Huntington Digital Library. The photo cards depict major hydroelectric projects, such as Big Creek, Kaweah, Kern River, Lytle Creek, San Antonio Canyon, the Santa Ana River, and the Colorado River; Steam Plants; the transmission system, including substations and transmission lines; the distribution system, including Edison facilities such as local offices and the Alhambra facility; and photo cards arranged by departmental filing codes as indicated below.

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  Drop of dreams

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  "The collages Okanoue began creating as a student at Bunka Gakuin College, which she entered to study fashion drawing, fluttered to earth as pure, private 'droplets of dreams' unrelated to artistic ambition ... Toshiko Okanoue's photo collages are, if we are to look at them in terms of where they fit into artistic lineages, unquestionably Surrealist; they instantly call to mind the collages of Max Ernst. Shuzo Takiguchi, who discovered Okanoue, insisted, however, that her work was not derivative ... Okanoue has said that she often went in search of collage materials to the Seishido bookstore, which had stacks of American illustrated magazines such as Life and Vogue out in front ... To Okanoue, whose country had been at war throughout her girlhood, the images with which those American magazines were filled were undoubtedly like dreams from another world--as they would have been to almost any Japanese person at that time. But the dreams that she assembled by quietly cutting out photographs from those illustrated magazine and gluing them together opened doors to transposing and rearranging the dreams that materialistic American civilization so lavishly spun ... With this exhibition, the dream droplets that Toshiko Okanoue sowed in mid twentieth century Japan will gently make their presence felt here at the beginning of a new century. And once again women will without a doubt hear these words in her collages: We are free!"--From introduction.

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  Couturier dreams

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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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  Photographic Positives

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  The photographic positives (ektapan "inner positives") includes images copied from original negatives in Jack London's negative collection; many of the positives duplicate images also found in the photograph albums held in the series below. The original negatives are now deposited with the State of California. Since these positives were made directly from the negatives, without going through a print process, the quality is generally good.

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  Items 75-83, 85-91, 93-95

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  The print of Item 85 is larger than the image depicted in the glass-plate negative; Item 87 has both a glass plate negative and a copy film negative. Items 84 and 92 have no corresponding negatives.

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