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Archive for the 'Photography' Category

Alumni Photographers

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

In conjunction with the Alden Library 40th Anniversary series of events, the Frederick and Kazuko Harris Art Library offers this selection of work by a few of our noted alumni.
On view in the 1968 Room (adjacent to Fine Arts), through fall quarter, 2009.

Images of Sao Paulo

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Frank Norton has been traveling to and capturing Brazil on film since 1980. Frank tries to capture his passion for Brazil through images of its people and locales. This exhibit offers a glimpse into the daily culture and environment of the city of São Paulo, and the coast of São Paulo State. On view in [...]

The Great Wall of China

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Photographs by Tieliang Zhang
In these photographs, experience the grandeur and magnificence of a part of the Great Wall at Jiankou, a mountainous suburb less than 100 miles northwest of Beijing. The Jiankou portion of the Great Wall was initially built in the fifteenth-century in the early Ming Dynasty. Also see other portions of the wall [...]

The Art of the Slipcase

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The history of the non-attached book cover stretches back to ancient cultures, such as the Sumerians, Greeks and Romans. The desire to protect and keep the written word began with the advent of writing itself.
The four most common types of book cover today are the slipcase, the clam shell, pull off case, and the four-fold [...]

Jim LoScalzo book launch & lecture

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Jim LoScalzo is a photographer for US News and World Report and the author of “Evidence Of My Existence“, recently published by the Ohio Univesity Press in association with the Ohio University School of Visual Communication and the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Mr. LoScalzo will be lecturing October 23rd at 7:30 in Scripps Hall. [...]

Japan, 1945

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

What is it like to see a post-war culture through the lens of a camera? What would a young GI document in late 1945 Japan?

On display at the Alden Library 4th floor Leisure reading area, through the month of September, is a collection of black and white photographs by the late Cliff McCarthy. [...]