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S.C. (Samuel Clarke) Pomeroy letter to "Mr. Behrn,"
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Professor
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This category defines Morris' third long-time employer. It contains correspondence and other items related to his tenure as Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Stanford University. The material includes lecture notes and items related to faculty and students at Stanford.
mssMorris, Samuel papers
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Acid Bloom
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"It's the moment I feel like a plant, or like a bug alighting on a flower, that I release the shutter. When I'm not in this heightened state, I may shoot a beautiful flower beautifully, but that is all. For me, the process of photographing a flower is something more, something that goes beyond the flower. When I'm photographing well, I am always floating on another plane--a place between this world and the world beyond"--From artist's introduction.
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The mystery of distilling brieflye unfolded: [instructions for fermenting and distilling liquors, wines, and "some choice waters"]
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The manuscript defines and explains the process of fermentation, with instructions for the fermentation and distillation of wines and liquors and recipes for making brandy, cinnamon water, and "a good water for expelling wind." The author and nationality of this brief account of distilling and fermenting is unknown; according to the dealer from whom it was purchased, the mansucript was found in the attic of an estate on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Grid-portraits
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"These photographs explore and challenge our perceptive processes by testing the limits of discontinuity, in both space and time, which our brains will accept in reading an image. Often included in the imagery is the photographer as voyeur and the material artifacts involved in making the photograph, including a Polaroid image of the finished portrait as a compositional element within the image. This self-referential element further emphasizes the act of perceiving, and in addition attests to the collaborative relationship between the photographer, his subject and the objects in their environments. This works gives a new meaning to 'The Decisive Moment,' for the lattice-window view presents a maze of scrambled time and recombinant architecture"--From introduction.
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Andy Warhol's index (book)
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This book, "published under the aegis of Andy Warhol, [is a] quintessential photobook [a] cornucopia of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snap-shots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves self-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol. Index (Book) is one of the most important and exuberant pop art objects ever published. From its holographic bubble-wrap cover to the various pop-ups and 'gifts'--the castle, the red accordion, the balloon (nearly always found perished nowadays, or stuck to the pages)--to the stream-of-consciousness photographs by such artists as Billy Name and Nat Finkelstein, it is also one of the ultimate photobooks-as-objects. It is, in addition, the primary Factory photo album, one of the most authoritative biographies of Warhol and a supreme example of the diaristic photographic mode before there was a considered diaristic mode."--The Photobook : A History Volume II / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London : Phaidon, 2004.
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