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Alejandro Cartegena, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

116 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (some color) ;1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : 3 illustrations (1 portrait). Cover title. Introduction by Jonathan Blaustein. Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the photographer and accompanied by 2 photographic color prints. "The last chapter of the trilogy that has followed the cultural turmoil that the US has lived in the last 4 years. The third volume continues to paint an uncertain present and future"--Publisher's website, viewed October 14, 2021. Alejandro's pictures in this project, since the beginning, have channeled that fear of fire, the engulfing heat, the insatiable flames, devouring everyone and everything, leaving charred scars behind So what now? If Alejandro can see the future? How is this book, the last in the trilogy, different and new? Well, it's confident in its bleak outlook. Booklet signed by the artist. Perfect binding. Hotfoil white velvet softcover.
Were it not for

Michael Ashkin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

256 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations. "Michael Ashkin works across a range of media--painting, photography, sculpture, video, and text. Uniting these diverse practices is a conceptual focus on the way that notions of space and place, landscape and self, are shaped by wider political and economic forces. "Were it not for" is combining a 670-line text with 218 photographs of the Mojave Desert. This combination creates a powerful sense of unease throughout the document, which is exploring the idea of fear and haunting as an effect of the violent legacies contained within the landscape, and as a function of the technologies that we use to represent it"-- Publisher's Web site.
While Nothing Lasts

Edward Cushenberry, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

120 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. While nothing lasts, is a collection of intimate and sometimes intrusive photographs of my very close friends and family. This project started four years ago at a party, when I made a picture of my friend crying after she told me she wanted to break up with her boyfriend. After that night, I felt compelled to document every moment of my friends and familys livesthe good and the bad. I wanted to do this to better understand how we collectively cope with life, love, heartbreak and death. Since this project began, I have seen friendships come and go, been witness to pursuits of love, moments of intimacy, joy, and self-reflection, seen rejected inhibitions, consequences of actions, loved ones facing their own mortality while lying in hospital beds. These moments have been lessons in how nothing really lasts, helping me to embrace life as it is. Throughout these experiences, I have found life to have a tendency to be beautiful. "Designed by Matt Austin and Melanie Teresa Bohrer"--Colophon. Accompanying essay written by Oriana Koren laid in at back of book (18 cm). Book in orange cloth binding with photograph affixed to back cover. Perfect binding. Offset printed.
The Afronauts

Cristina de Middel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

88 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, facsimiles. Title from spine, and page [2] of cover. Publication information from colophon. [3rd] Edition of 1000 copies. First published 2012 ; 2nd edition 2016. Photobook by Cristina De Middel inspired by the short-lived Zambia space program started by school teacher Edward Makuka Nkoloso in 1964. Bound photobook of digital prints, with inserts including a map, artwork, letters, reproductions of vintage photographs and newspaper article. Some of the inserts are single and double gate-fold sheets printed on one side of translucent paper.
Se Te Subio El Santo | Are you in a Trance?

Tiona McClodden, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

94 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Se Te Subio El Santo is a collection of self-portraits taken by the artist directly after she awoke every morning while away on a week-long residency in Iowa City, IA at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Spring 2016. This daily practice confronts notions of the artist's interests in rendering a full self implicit of gender, race, sexuality, and spirituality while challenging and collapsing the intersections of each identity as well. Includes an essay by Akwaeke Emezi. Offset printing. Sewn, case binding.
At no point in between

Zora J. Murff, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

100 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Inserted are two small photograph reproductions and one pamphlet First hardcover edition of 165. Design and cover production by Shawn Bush. Printed in Milwaukee, WI by The Fox Co. "At No Point In Between prompts inquiry into the antinomy that exists in recorded violence: how documentation of anti-black violence was used to shame black individuals, but how we have used those same images inversely to interrupt the collective belief of a racial hierarchy. Murff accomplishes this by challenging the photographs use as an objective document; addressing the convergence of the physical and social landscape; and reinterpreting complex narratives about race, power, and violence. Creating a collection of images scrutinized in both their historical and contemporary contexts, Murff metaphorically connects the body and the landscape, fast and slow violence. By intertwining witnessing and critical analysis, Murff provides a deeper understanding of systemic white supremacy and the resulting violence therein."--publisher's website.
Yanjie / 顏姐: Combing for Ice and Jade

Kurt Tong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

246 unnumbered pages : color illustrations (some folded). 1st edition. Combing for Ice and Jade is a love note from Kurt Tong to his nanny, who was one of the last remaining self combed women left in China. An early form of Feminism, the comb up ceremony granted women great autonomy at a great cost. Kurt Tong has worked closely with his nanny over a period of nearly 7 years. Having only 8 photographs of herself, the book is an exploration of her extraordinary life. Her story is slowly revealed through the book, combined with Kurts family archive, found photographs from her extended families, new photographs, and women's magazines from China. Text has several mounted booklets throughout, some are facsimile reprints of Chinese magazines. Front cover and some pages have cutout windows. Designers: Kurt Tong, Yinhe Cheng. In Chinese and English. Loose print, folded and inserted in the middle of the book. Open spine binding, text attached to back cover only. Signed by the author on the title page. Book within book.
Quieto Pelo : Tumaco : área rural y urbana

Liliana Angulo Cortés, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[Colombia] : Universidad Nacional de Colombia, [2017]. Collection of 4 postcard booklets with 10 postcards each, printed in glossy paper and folded accordion style (16 x 100 cm unfolded). In Spanish.
Buraindo dēto / ブラインドデート (Blind Date)

Lieko Shiga, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

100 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. Japanese bound softcover housed in a printed special box. Title, publication information and all text from the enclosure box. "It was the summer of 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand, that Shiga photographed couples on motorbikes. In this city Shiga exchanged glances with hundreds and thousands of people on the back seat of motorbikes. The camera seemed to be the ideal tool for getting closer to that strange feeling of receiving glances without physically connecting with them. She continued for a week and managed to photograph around 100 couples. Continuing to exchange glances with unknown strangers had an effect on her and she felt as though she was rediscovering the sense of wildness that resided in the depths of her heart. It was a rich experience, as if she was touching something very sensual." -- From publisher's website, accessed 9/12/2017. "First edition, June 10, 2017"--enclosure. Design, Daishiro Mori. Text in Japanese and English.
Where we've been ; Where we are going ; Why?

Dan Boardman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

2 volumes in one ([206] unnumbered pages) : illustrations (some color), color portraits . "Conveyor Editions, in collaboration with Houseboat Press, is pleased to present Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why? by Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays. This multi-part publication is a collection of personal and public archives--family snapshots, candid photographs of the Challenger crew, astronomy plates of Halley's Comet, and screenshots of video from the Teacher in Space project Lost Lessons. Boardman and Mays use the photographic archive as a device to draw connections between seemingly disparate events--the return of Halley's Comet, the rite of passage of the American road trip, and the Teacher in Space program, which invited the first civilian to leave the Earth. On January 28th 1986, at the launch of Challenger Mission STS-51-L, these seemingly random events aligned, giving way to the parallel histories explored within this book. In piecing together these photographic remains, Dan Boardman and Aspen Mays, visually inquire into which record is the official record."--Publisher's website.
Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies

Taryn Simon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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.
Gathered Leaves

Alec Soth, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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

Paula McCartney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[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.
Evidence

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

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

Marion Palfi, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

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, and Fleet Library

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.