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Sylvæ

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In slipcase ; Bound in quarter leather over bare wooden boards, lapped case binding ; White leather spine with tooled title lettering in gold

Standing Place

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"I take students to New Zealand every two years, and in doing that have made good friends at a Maori Marae, which is a tribal meetinghouse. This is the story of their parents. Ned Nathan joined the Maori Battalion at the start of World War II. Like…

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Point of View

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"... the back sides of the gate folds ... presented a challenge. Somehow, this space needed to introduce each spread and use a system which unified the book.... I decided to use a map, complete with dots to indicate locations of people. I used red to…

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Place of the Long River

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Bound in blue cloth streaked with peach threads ; small woodcut on paper attached to front board ; tail edges deckled ; "The type is Garamond 156 (an English Monotype cutting) in Roman and Italic, in sizes ranging from 12-48 point. The images were…

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Paszport : Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa

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"Paszport presents and re-presents Beata Wehr's nomadic life, encapsulating and juxtaposing her travels in time and distance. A presumably unchanging fingerprint is background and foreground to a stamp that shouts 'Alien' and a series of photographs…

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Pastimes

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"The following images are derived from episodic memories that relate to growing up in rural Wisconsin."--T.p. verso.

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Paradise Lost

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"Paradise Lost is about nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands conducted by the US in the 40's and 50's. It focuses on the first two explosions on Bikini Atoll in 1946. The Bikinians were told that testing the bomb was essential to prevent future…

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Pantheon

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"Pantheon" applies the names of Greek Gods to individual people in a found panoramic photograph. The heads of people through cut-out windows as star images of gods and muses. The book includes an additional copy of the panorama without the names in…

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The Other Place

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"Limited edition portfolio of 16 prints by American artist Bob Erickson and Northern Irish artist Keith Wilson with a poem by William Lawlor. Each artist made images that explore and investigate the natural environment in and around the other's home.…

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Necropolis

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"Digitally and manually manipulated photographs taken in the Necropolis of Buenos Aires in January 2005"--Colophon.

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