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Field Guide To Birds Of The West Indies, Taryn Simon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

606 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. Continuation of: Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies, ISBN: 9783775736633. Contents: Wonderful machines / Nico Baumbach -- Field guide to birds of the West Indies -- James Bond's correspondence, Awards, and Artifacts; Maps and Publications -- A speck of dust in that black hole / Daniel Baumann. Includes bibliographical references.

Mid-, Elise Kirk

Masters Theses

This thesis explores a personal and cultural tension between rootedness and restlessness, set against the backdrop of my native Midwest. The large-format portrait and landscape photographs reflect a paradoxical longing to pull up stakes and put down roots, and the liminal state we often dwell in as a result. Playing on the conception of the Midwest as a transient zone to be passed through en route to somewhere else, the work refers to the pervasive belief that our greatest hopes and potentials can only be realized in some other place, at some future or past time. It’s a syndrome I …

The Void, The Mystery, The Vast Array, The Infinity Of Unities, The Otherworld, The Absolute, The Hidden Order, The Randomness, The Infraworld, The Nothing, The Zone Of Immaterial Sensibility, The Silence, The Hollow Of Space, The Ineffable, The Emptiness, The Wild, Drew Ludwig

Masters Theses

This thesis presents the culmination of two years of excursions into and longing for the void: the sense of absolute presence and connectivity that I have always found in the desert of the Colorado Plateau. Away from the desert, I use my artistic practice as a means of approaching this kinship with the wild, the void.

My work may be understood as a series of experiments, striving to locate and access the void through different language, logic and media. My process speaks to a deep respect for the external wild of landscape (the desert), and a growing recognition of the …

Gathered Leaves, Alec Soth, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

4 volumes, 29 cards : color illustrations, portraits. Contains mini facsimile versions of Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, Broken Manual, and Songbook.

Camera Obscura (Image Of Havanah Looking Southeast In Room With Ladder, Risd Museum, Abelardo Morell

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This photograph holds special significance for Cuban-born artist Abelardo Morell, as it was created during the first trip he had taken to his homeland since he fled Castro’s regime with his family in 1962. To make this image, Morell transformed a room into a camera obscura, an optical device that preceded the modern camera which projects its surroundings onto its interior walls. In this room-sized version, the landscape outdoors is projected, upside down, on the interior. 2002

A Field Guide To Snow And Ice, Paula Mccartney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

[48] pages : chiefly illustrations . Includes 48 black and white and full color plates printed with UV inks on uncoated paper. Leporello binding with multiple panel widths and stiff front and back covers. Spine closure printed on synthetic paper. With the spine detached from the front cover, the book becomes an installation piece approximately 34 feet in length. 34 ft = 1036.3 cm. With an essay by Mark Alice Durant. Designed by Paula McCartney. Printed by The Avery Group at Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, MN.

Entre Entree, Stephen Keppel, Hans Gremmen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

[200] pages : all illustrations. "Edition: 500 copies. Includes a print (30 x 21 cm) signed by the Keppel, housed in a black paper folder. Includes a 7"" vinyl record in paper sleeve. Record has title: ""Auto Danse"" (4:03), b-side has title: Périphérique (4:36). ""'Auto Danse' is a project by Neeltje ten Westenend and Stephan Keppel, Paris, 2014. Composition and performance by Harry de Wit.""--record label. For the creation of 'Entre Entree', Stephan Keppel spent one year in Paris and it's suburbs. By reproducing the endless variations of the city's surfaces - with his set of printers, camera's and partly …

Welcome To The Doll House, Francie Latour, Risd Xyz

RISD XYZ Fall/Winter 2013: Out of Bounds

From the Barbie dresses he made as a boy to his first splash in the New York art world, Martín Gutierrez 12 PR is working to perfect what he has always done naturally.

Seven Seas Without, Ambereen Siddiqui

Masters Theses

In my work I explore dislocation within a diasporic experience. I use personal and familial accounts of migration, assimilation and reverse culture shock to examine and add to the collective narratives that underlie national as well as individual identities. In reconciling my own sense of loss in having moved away from Pakistan, I appropriate histories, recreate memories and envision futures to mould the present. Investigations of personal experiences inform an analysis of the larger social, political and historical contexts. In my practice I use video, animation and new media technologies to “re-view” archives. My sources include audio and text from …

Open See, Jim Goldberg, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

4 v. : chiefly ill. (some col.). "Parallel text in English and French. Title and statement of responsibility from slipcase. ""Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... from May 5th to July 26th 2009 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris""--Colophon."

Framing The Brandenburg Gate, Cassandra Celestin, Peter J. Cohen, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color). "This book brings together a selection of postcards, snapshots, and press photographs of the Brandenburg Gate from the Peter J. Cohen Collection."-- page [3] Adhesive binding, Includes a business card of Peter Cohen, inscribed and signed by Peter. Gift of Jan Howard, RISD Museum."

Water's Edge, Harry Callahan, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

62 unnumbered pages : frontispiece, illustrations (2 folded), portrait. "First edition of 5000 copies. ""The afterword was edited from conversations between Mr. Callahan and the publisher recorded in Providence, Rhode Island in May 1980.""-- title page verso. Case binding, off-white linen cloth. Former RISD Faculty. Copy in Special gift of the Estate of Michael Mitchell. Special copy has dust jacket."

Re-Visions

Photography

102 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Edition of 5000 copies. Adhesive binding, paper cover with color portrait. Worn paper spine. Gift of the Estate of Michael J. Mitchell.

Evidence, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

[71] pages : chiefly illus. ; 24 x 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Library copy is signed by, and a gift of, the authors.

The Lewis W. Hine Document, Lewis Wickes Hine, Naomi Rosenblum, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

1 portfolio (4 unnumbered pages of text, 16 plates) : illustrations, portraits. "Title from portfolio cover. Includes a timeline. Black and white photography. Gift of the Estate of Michael J. Mitchell."

Invisible In America: An Exhibition Of Photographs, Marion Palfi, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

176 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm. Miscellaneous publication of the Museum of Art ; no. 91. Presents portraits of children and families from poor southern, western, and urban United States. Includes images of white, black, and native Americans. Black paper cover with blind, raised title lettering. Perfect binding. Inscribed on title page to Grace Mayer, signed by the photographer, dated March 1973.

I Wish I Had An Afro, John Shearer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

50 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm. John is a black eleven year old, who lives in Westchester, N.Y. the book tells about his parents, friends and school. Illustrations on endpapers and dust jacket. John Shearer (1947–2019) was an American photographer, writer, and filmmaker, best known for his photojournalism concerning poverty or social economics. Walter Lorraine Fund.

The Movement: Documentary Of A Struggle For Equality, Lorraine Hansberry, Danny Lyon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

127 p. : chiefly ill., ports. "First printing"--t.p. verso. The majority of the photographs are by Danny Lyon; also includes photographs by Roy De Carava, Robert Frank, David Heath, el al. ""Designed by Eve Metz""--t.p. verso."

The Sweet Flypaper Of Life, Roy Decarava, James Mercer Langston Hughes, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Photography

112 pages : chiefly illus. First edition. "The Sweet Flypaper of Life describes, in words and pictures, what the authors have seen and known and felt deeply about their people. Life in Harlem may be hard; getting up each morning and going to work, knowing that today will be like yesterday and tomorrow. Yet there are rewards, moments – a man walking in the sun, a woman laughing, couples in the part, the watering of a garden on a windowsill, a father's touch, a child's glance. "We've had so many books about how bad life is," Langston Hughes says. "Maybe …

Ginza Kaiwai / Kimura Sōhachi Hencho. 銀座界隈 / 木村荘八編著

Photography

2 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps . Volume [2]: Arubamu, Ginza Hatchō (folded accordion style, 19 cm), photographed by Yoshikazu Suzuki. 付(別冊 1冊 19cm):アルバム。銀座八丁. "Suzuki's work predating by 10 years Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip, but presenting Ginza in a similar fashion."--AbeBooks website (viewed on October 21, 2014) A visual document of Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. As Japan was recovering from World War II, Kimura and Suzuki set out to document the history and architecture of the Ginza district in Tokyo. The finished project, Ginza Kaiwai, contains two separate volumes. The main volume [1] has detailed text, …