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Excerpts from silver meadows
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"Nazraeli Press is pleased to announce Excerpts from Silver Meadows, our sixth monograph by Todd Hido and his most ambitious project to date. Hido is one of the most widely recognized and influential photographic artists of our time. Silver Meadows is the name of a street that runs through the neighborhood in Kent, Ohio where the artist grew up. The setting of Hido's childhood, it also became the creative wellspring for his work. Here, it serves as a point of departure for Hido's reexamination of a Midwestern suburban upbringing; 'a trip through the innocence of childhood and adolescence and into the darker aspects of life beyond.' Beautifully printed on matte Japanese art paper, and featuring an 'installation' of tipped-in images on the case binding, 'Excerpts from Silver Meadows' is printed in a first edition of 3,000 copies. A special edition with an signed and numbered original print is also available."--Publisher's description.
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Witness number seven
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This volume of Witness, edited by Todd Hido, is organised into three sections. The first contains his own work - photographs of a foreclosed home (pictures of places that are really about people); the second contains portrait work by Leon Borensztein; the third contains (intermixed with his own work) images made by various photographers over several decades, which Hido has found enduringly inspiring.
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Outskirts
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This stunning new book by Todd Hido is a perfect companion volume to his first title, 'House Hunting' ... Hido's large-format color photographs of suburbia convey an aura of loneliness, mystery and isolation while managing, at the same time, to excude comfort and even warmth. His portraits of tract homes are imbued with an eerie softness, their exteriors glowing invitingly--or is it ominously?--in the cool night air"--Publisher's description.
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House hunting : with 'Just looking' a story by A.M. Homes
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"For the series, Hido photographed suburban houses-repossessed tract homes, family homes and similarly trivial architecture--at night, with nothing to suggest habitation but the soft glow of TV screens and bedlights through window blinds. Hido's photos tread a thin line between eerie and inviting, between sneering judgment and melancholic compassion"--Publisher's description.
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Shameful Friday: a critical study of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
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Typewritten manuscript of Frank Beckwith's Shameful Friday, and examination of reports and evidence surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Beckwith states that his purpose is to "present the Gentile viewpoint, the Mormon presentation (contra to the [Gentile]), and as many statements, alibis, and comments of descendants of 'the 55' as can be got." The manuscript is divided into 21 chapters, each separately bound with the following notations on the covers: 1) Ike Potter, 2) William Hawley, 3) Synopsis, 4) Fixing the Time [of the massacre], 5) The Plans Go Awry, 6) Shameful Friday, 7) New Leaks, 8) Personnel and character of the Fancher Train, 9) The Big Five, 10) The 55, 11) What Happened About This Time, 12) The Mormon Viewpoint, 13) Mince Meat, 14) The Law's Delay, 15) Two Trials Necessary to Convict Lee, 16) Execution of John D. Lee, 17) Visits to Mountain Meadows, 18) Old Timers [viewpoints] and [help from a] novel [by] J.J. Clark, 19) John D. Lee's Confession, 20) The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Bancroft, and 21) The Indians in 1857. The manuscript contains handwritten notations and original photographs. Also included are a transcribed copy of portions of John D. Lee's diary from May-August 1849, a typed manuscript by John L. McGinn entitled "Mormon and Indian Wars, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and Other Tragedies and Transactions Incident to the Mormon Rebellion of 1857 Together with the Personal Recollections of a Civilian Who Witnessed Many of the Thrilling Scenes Described" (1903), and typewritten copies of newspaper articles on Mountain Meadows from the Arkansas Gazette (1877, 1908, 1912).
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One boxed Set of watercolor paints, manufactured by Thomas Reeves and Sons
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One boxed set of watercolor paints, untitled, manufactured by Thomas Reeves and Sons, ca. 1781. The set is comprised of 12 embossed cakes of watercolor paint within a wooden box with a sliding lid. The paints are each within a wooden divider, and are labeled with printed paper labels. The two rows of paint cakes occupy two-thirds of the box; the remaining third is (presumably) for storing paintbrushes. Affixed to the bottom of this third is a printed affidavit which reads: "Society for the Encouragement of Arts, manufacture and Commerce, Adelphi, May 1781. Gentlemen, I am desired by the Society to return you their thanks for the obliging present you have been pleased to make to them of Box of Colours prepared by you for the use of painters in watercolours an art so well adapted to the purpose of forwarding that [?] of polite arts could not fail of being acceptable to the society. Thos. Reeves and Son, Colour manufacturer to Her Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. I am Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant. Sam'l Moore, Secretary." The cakes of paint are embossed with a shield and the name of the color. This is the oldest paint box in the collection, and was acquired by DK in Springfield, MA at an Ephemera/Antiques Fair, ca. 1994. Title supplied by cataloger.
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