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  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.

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  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.

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  Pine

  Eirik Johnson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations + vinyl record (33 1/3 RPM). "Side A. Bigfoot / Whiting Tennis -- Bird of paradise / Dede -- Recuerdos / Elia -- All the world is green / Eirik Johnson -- Side B. Zoo / NEWAXEYES -- First Thought / Sassy Black -- Love-Lies-Bleeding / Tenderfoot. Over the last few years photographer Eirik Johnson has scouted trees of all environs, looking for human traces upon them, and musing on the (often) adolescent emotions and explorations that lead to poignant sentiments recorded within a living surface. Johnson envisioned and realized a sonic set of reflections to accompany his photographs, revisiting his own history as a musician and bringing in a varied group of collaborators who responded to the photographs with their compositions and recordings -- Provided by the publisher. Record pressed on blue vinyl."

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Entre Entree

  Stephen Keppel, Hans Gremmen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [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 found paper-stocks - Keppel creates a new urban and visual structure. This experimental approach gives a unique perspective on a city that is over the years so often visually celebrated. 'Entre Entree' continues Keppel's ongoing research on public space, urban structures and reproduction. Edit and design: Hans Gremmen, Stephan Keppel. ""This publication is the result of a residency at Van Doesburghuis (Meudon val Fleury) and Atelier Holsboer (Paris) from April 2013 to April 2014""--Colophon."

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  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.

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  Open See

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

  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."

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  Framing the Brandenburg Gate

  Cassandra Celestin, Peter J. Cohen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  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."

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  Water's Edge

  Harry Callahan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  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."

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  Re-Visions

  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.

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  The Lewis W. Hine Document

  Lewis Wickes Hine, Naomi Rosenblum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  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."

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  The Movement: documentary of a struggle for equality

  Lorraine Hansberry, Danny Lyon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  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."

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  The Sweet Flypaper of Life

  Roy DeCarava, James Mercer Langston Hughes, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  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 it's time to have one showing how good it is." - From the dust jacket

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

  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, illustrations, drawings, woodblock prints, and hand-drawn maps of the entire district. The supplement [2], Arubamu, Ginza Hatchō, by Suzuki, is a panoramic photo, folded accordion style, documenting the length of the main boulevard Ginza-dori.-- Adapted from Ohio State University Library webpage. In Japanese. Volume [1] in slipcase. Each volume housed in original cardboard two-piece box. Box has mounted title label. SEI.