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Print: $32.96 Colorado Wall Dogs showcases 54 photographs of vintage advertising signs called “ghost signs” that were painted on brick buildings from around 1880 to 1940. This book is Laura’s effort to preserve and catalog this important part of Roadside Americana. While searching out and photographing these hand-painted signs Laura nicknamed the signs “wall dogs” in homage to the itinerant men who painted them. Her three-year effort to photograph ghost signs all over the state of Colorado was an incredible exploration of our graphic and architectural history. Be sure to click on the preview button to see a sampling of "wall dogs."
Laura Russell is a photographer and book artist currently based in Portland, Oregon. Her work incorporates photographs of urban landscapes to tell a story about our culture and our communities. Museums, libraries and corporations collect her work. See her handbound artist books at www.LauraRussell.net.
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Print: $30.00 In the summer of 2006, nearly 250 families received notice that their three adjoining mobile home parks in Beaverton, Oregon would be closed and demolished to make way for redevelopment. For two years, photographer Laura Russell and writer Nicole Bowmer documented the stories of this community as lives were uprooted. Bless This House is a collection of landscape and portrait photographs, combined with the personal stories of the residents to create a revealing account of a community on the brink of extinction.
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Print: $25.00 23 Sandy Gallery is proud to honor the art and craft of the handmade book with our latest exhibition featuring artist books, The Beautiful Book, featured in the gallery June 5-27, 2009. Artist books are small edition or one of a kind book forms hand crafted by individual artists. This exquisite collection showcases the beauty in craftsmanship, materials, and imagery of the bookmaker’s art.
This exhibition catalog showcases all 40 books made by 27 artists included in the exhibit with full color photos and artist statements for each work. A wonderful exploration of the allure of artist books.
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Print: $28.00 Maternal Legends, a juried exhibition of contemporary artist books, was exhibited at 23 Sandy Gallery December 5, 2008 through January 3, 2009. Mothers, grandmothers, sisters, stories, histories, legends, legacies. What did we learn from our mothers and their mothers and their mothers? What are the stories that have been passed down through the generations? How did the women in our family shape who we are today? Artists around the world were inspired to explore and celebrate our Maternal Legends through the magic of artist books. This exhibit was juried by Cara List, the Art and Art History Librarian at the University of Oregon’s Architecture and Allied Arts Library. This exhibition catalog showcases those artists included in the exhibit with full color photos of each work as well as artist statements for each work. A wonderful celebration of the book arts.
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Print: $28.00 In Laura Russell’s hometown of Saginaw, Michigan, decades of poverty and the decline of the automotive business are creating an urban blight that is heartbreaking. Lost factory jobs lead to lost homes as families struggle to survive. These homes become bank property then gang territory, then arson targets before finally succumbing to city bulldozers.
In this moving, emotional book, photographs of burned out, boarded-up, homes—once proud family homes—are paired with Laura's original poetry about a once-vibrant neighborhood and the decay of the American dream. Urban Decay presents 30 photographs, all taken on one cold morning, in one small neighborhood—an area about seven blocks by three blocks. Two poems, introductory text and a map of the burned out houses accompany the photographs.
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Print: $20.00 23 Sandy Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition catalog for "Shelter: A National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Photography." Shelter explores architecture, habitat and sanctuary. It is one of our most basic human needs—at once both physical and psychological. Photographers were challenged to explore how shelter can be interpreted visually given its myriad manifestations.
Shelter features the following photographers: Keliy Anderson-Staley, Chris Bennett, Nan Brown, Brad Carlile, Eric Curry, Diane Deaton-Street, Liat Elbling, Barry Finkel, Barbara Gilson, Jon Gottshall, M. Bruce Hall, Stewart Harvey, Melissa Hogan, Scott Jones, Jim Kazanjian, Janos Lanyi, Jim Leisy, Jim Lommasson, Robert Morris, Loren Nelson, Alexis Pike, Ann Ploeger, Frank Relle, Randy Richmond, Peter Snadik, Don Unrau, and Leigh Van Duzer.
This exhibition was juried by Randy Gragg, a writer and editor who recently he developed and is now editing a new design magazine called Portland Spaces.
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Print: $30.00 In the summer of 2006, nearly 250 families received notice that their three adjoining mobile home parks in Beaverton, Oregon would be closed and demolished to make way for redevelopment. For two years, photographer Laura Russell and writer Nicole Bowmer documented the stories of this community as lives were uprooted. Bless This House is a collection of landscape and portrait photographs, combined with the personal stories of the residents to create a revealing account of a community on the brink of extinction.
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Print: $22.96 Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes
A National Juried Exhibition held at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, Oregon
Exhibition Catalog
Resurrection explores a renewed interest in antique or alternative photographic processes. Contemporary photographers have developed a new focus on materials and techniques by turning to the history of photography for metaphors, technical information, and visual inspiration.
This national juried show showcases a wide array of primitive photographic processes by contemporary artists who are using antiquarian methods in unexpected ways. These artists are working with antique or alternative techniques such as tintypes, daguerreotypes, gum bichromates, emulsion on metals, cyanotypes, collodian prints, toned silver prints, and much more. This show was curated by Laura Moya, who is the director of PhotoLucida.
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