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Roberto by Lalla Porter
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My Sites
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photographs of things I see • posterous - New StoryCulture • Animation
stop motion and cut out animation blog • typepad - Sami American
scandinavian indigenous heritage blog • posterous - StoryCulture • Artistic Muses
the original blog I started in early 2007 • posterous - Visually Fixated
vintage photographs that catch my eye • posterous
ART BOOKS
Sarah Burns: American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945
Edward Gorey: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
Illustrated collection of 21 interviews.Karen Lucic: Charles Sheeler and Cult of the Machine (Essays in Art and Culture)
Micah Condon: Colour, Obsession, Joy and Torment: The Daily Painters Art Gallery 2008
The art of 146 artists from around the world.Constance Martin: Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
Linda Jones Gibbs: Escape to Reality: The Western World of Maynard Dixon
Patricia Trenton: Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945
Elmo Baca: Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos: Bohemian Legends, 1900-1950
Mabel Dodge Luhan was a patron of the arts who hosted a salon in Taos, New Mexico.Robert Motherwell: With Pen and Brush
His paintings are put for consideration alongside Motherwell's writings and interviews.Erica Hirshler: Studio of Her Own, A: Women Artists in Boston 1870-1940
Rockwell Kent: Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Sami Heritage
Veli-pekka Lehtola: The Sami People: Traditions in Transition
Written from the Sami perspective and available here in English. Filled with color photos, historic maps, and illustrations.Deborah Robinson: The Sami of Northern Europe (First Peoples)
Written for children in grades 4 through 7.Piers Vitebsky: The Reindeer People: Living With Animals and Spirits in Siberia
Details the lives of the Eveny nomads. Not a dry academic book. The author, a Cambridge anthropologist chronicles time spent with the Eveny over a span of twenty years.Harald Gaski: Sami Culture in a New Era: The Norwegian Sami Experience
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Books Mentioned in Lalla's Posts
Hans Silvester: Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley
The first volume of this deluxe two-volume set: Presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, children’s games, and even their battles.Matthieu Ricard: Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Ricard provides a straightforward assessment of how to create true and lasting happiness. He addresses the pursuit of a meaningful life at its most fundamental level the strengthening of the inner conditions that lead to genuine happiness. Ricard helps readers form new patterns of interaction with themselves and with the larger world, working toward happiness step by step, starting with 20 minutes of daily mind training and meditation.Dorothea Lange: Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Hans Silvester: Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa
To be released in April, 2009. In this second volume on the Omo People each photograph becomes a masterpiece of abstract art, revealing close-ups of the tribes’ traditional body paintings.M.D., Stuart Brown: Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Oil Paintings :: Lalla Porter :: Previous Work
Wisdom Meets Modernization by Lalla Porter
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Photojournalism and Photography Books
Agnes Sire: An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson
John Berger: Between The Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics
Robert Coles: Dorothea Lange: Photographs Of A Lifetime (Aperture Monograph)
Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer
Monograph from the Archives of The Oakland Museum of CaliforniaGerald H. Robinson: Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar
Robert Hariman: No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy
Carol Beckwith: Nomads of Niger
"Photographer Carol Beckwith spent 18 months traveling with one particular band of Wodaabe, and her photographs concentrate on the family of a herdsman named Mokao and his family. Nomads of Niger is more than just a coffee-table book; it is also an informative and highly entertaining account of the lives, customs, rituals, and taboos of the Wodaabe reminiscent of the best of National Geographic magazine."Calvin Tomkins: Paul Strand: Sixty Years Of Photographs (Aperture Monograph)
Elizabeth Partridge: Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
Reading level through 9 to 12.Richard Whelan: Robert Capa: Photographs (Aperture Monograph)
James T. Murray: Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York
Theodore E. Stebbins: The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist
Peter Radetsky: The Soviet Image: A Hundred Years of Photographs from Inside the TASS Archives
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak: Toward a Deeper Understanding: Paul Strand at Work
Ken Light: Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers
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