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The photographer in the garden
From famous locations to the simplest home vegetable garden, from worlds imagined by artists to vintage family snapshots, 'The Photographer in the Garden' traces the garden's rich history in photography and delights readers with spectacular images. Picture commentaries by Sarah Anne McNear and an informative essay from curator Jamie M. Allen broaden our understanding of photography and how it has been used to record the glory of the garden. The book features photographers from all eras, including Anna Atkins, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugلene Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Stephen Shore, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Collier Schorr.
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Turning a Silk Purse into a Sow's Ear: A Speculative Note on Humay and Humayun in Philadelphia
The Rare Books department at the Free Library of Philadelphia owns a deluxe manuscript of Sa'di's Kulliyat, originally produced in mid-sixteenth century Shiraz and substantially modified in more modern times. Among the alterations was the insertion of a copy of the famous Timurid painting “Humay and Humayun in a garden”, belonging to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. The Philadelphia version of the Paris painting was likely based on either a published reproduction or a photograph taken of the original composition when it was on view at the ground-breaking 1910 exhibition “Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst” in Munich. That photographic reproductions could result in pictorial replicas reveals once again the market forces behind the great interest in, demand for, and production of classical Persian painting during the early twentieth century.
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Gallery Al-Quds and the Garden of Eden
Letters and photographs evoke the long-ago era of missionaries and teachers in the 1800s, to the multi-cultural, multi-religious establishment of major educational institutions such as the American University of Beirut, through latter-day diplomatic exchanges and present-day journalism and scholarship.
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The Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915: The Olmsted Brothers' Ecological Park Typology
During the last weeks of his practice, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., wrote that the future of his firm depended on developing an appropriate landscape style for the arid West.Christine Edstrom O'Haratells how his sons' firm, Olmsted Brothers, set out to reach that goal in their unbuilt proposal for the 1915 San Diego Panama-California Exposition, in what is now Balboa Park.The Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915: The Olmsted Brothers' Ecological Park Typologyis the story of their innovative embrace of regionalist aesthetics and a respect for local ecology, topography, and weather. The ideals of their design, however, were not taken up by their clients. The Olmsted firm was fired, and the fairgrounds that welcomed visitors to San Diego in 1915 had architecture that was more appropriate to large cities and a landscape better suited to a wet climate.
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Representing Immigration Detainees: The Juxtaposition of Image and Sound in \Border Country\
This paper discusses the four-year (2003-2007) research process towards my exhibition and publication \"Border Country\", which focuses on the experience of immigration detainees (appellant or \"failed\" asylum seekers) in the UK's \"immigration removal centres\". I discuss my earlier exhibition \"Homes and Gardens: Documenting the Invisible\" which focused on the repression in Kosovo under the Milosevi? regime, and the difficulties of representing the \"hidden violence\" which led to the adoption of a particular sound/image structure for the exhibition. I discuss how I then chose to work with a similar sound/image framework for \"Border Country\" and the aesthetic and conceptual considerations involved. I discuss the decision to expand the focus of the exhibition from one individual detainee to eleven, and to omit the photographic portraits of detainees from the exhibition for ethical and conceptual reasons. I finally produced a juxtaposition of photographs of immigration removal centre landscapes and interiors (devoid of people) with a soundtrack of oral testimonies. The voices of individual detainees could be heard at listening stations within the gallery spaces or on the publication's audio CD. Within this research process I also discuss my interview methodology and questions of power imbalance between photographer/artist and incarcerated asylum seekers. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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PEOPLE, GARDENS & MEDICINE
A visit to London is presented wherein the places which were of less interest to the tourists and more interest to biologists are described. The places visited include the Museum of Garden History housed in former church of St. Mary at Lambeth, which is important to the history of gardens and of biology because the John Tradescants, elder and younger are both buried in the churchyard.
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