Posts Tagged ‘book’
Portraits by Loretta Lux
The Dubois Library, the largest photography library in San Diego County, owes part of its success to the generous donations made through its wishlist on amazon.com.
One of the month’s most recent gifts is this hardcover book featuring child portraits by German artist Loretta Lux. After a glance through the pages, this stunning-looking collection of images [...]
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The parades are happening, the beads are flying, let me tell you, it is some kind of party over here. Well, it may be a little bit understated compared to New Orleans or Rio, but it is a party all the same. What are we celebrating, you ask? Photography! Old and new, b/w and color, [...]
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Tags: book, celebration, collection, Mardi Gras
Spring Cleaning in December
The Development and Education Departments of the museum recently switched offices, and the big move has resulted in a lot of cleaning and reorganizing. During the chaos, many great books have been rediscovered and donated to the library, in addition to a few that were, um, checked out by staff some time ago (wink, wink), [...]
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We are pleased to announce the donation of two new contemporary photography books to the Dubois Library collection: Borderlands, by Eirik Johnson, and Coney Island, by Peter Granser.
Published by Twin Palms Publishers and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Eirik Johnson’s monograph Borderlands, was named one of the best photo books of 2005 by Photo-Eye. Lupe [...]
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MoPA hosted renowned National Geographic photographerSteve McCurry this week, on Wednesday, 9/13/06. Mr. McCurry gave two illuminating lectures complete with many slides of his work in East and Southeast Asia, and also participated in book and poster signings for lecture attendees.
The library was fortunate enough to receive two signed books from the museum bookstore: [...]
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