There are approximately 17,000 public libraries in the country today, and Robert Dawson set out in 1994 to document a portion of them. He spent the next eighteen years traversing the country from California to Maine and from Alaska to Florida photographing America’s public libraries. With specific itineraries based on demographics, political history, geography, cultural diversity, local literary heroes, and architectural interest, Dawson would get on the road, shoot, edit and evaluate, and see where the photographs were leading him. What were these institutions—some modest and rural, some grand and urban—telling him about the library’s relationship to its community, to the history of a place, and to our national identity?
With a bow to Lee Friedlander and Timothy O’Sullivan, this album offers Dawson’s photographs as a partial survey—a slice of the vernacular landscape of contemporary America through the lens of libraries and the communities they serve. Greatly influenced by the landscape work of Ansel Adams and the work of the Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Dawson sought to go beyond a predictable architectural study to provide a greater social, political, and cultural context to his photographs. The project grew out of his long-term commitment to photographing “what we share”: water, landscape, parks, infrastructure, the built environment—the commons. What we share, what we need to take responsibility for, and what binds us together as a culture. As Bill Moyers states “Dawson shows us . . . what is at stake—when the library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
Public Library is in the permanent collections of the Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University and the Huntington Library.

Reiko Sudo is one of the great textile designers working today. Her talent is admired internationally, and her innovative designs are part of the permanent collections of museums around the world. The Nuno Box has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum, Cotsen Foundation, Tokyo Zokei University, Textile Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, and UCLA Library. It is also included in many private collections.

140 distinct textiles are represented in this book/object. It houses three scarves, a notebook of cloth samples, and collages assembled by Sudo herself. Tools and raw materials used in her practice are featured as part of the edition.
Published in a edition of 50 copies, all signed and numbered.

This LACMA video presents the components in detail.

In this remarkable edition, environmental scientist Gretchen C. Daily and photographer Charles J. Katz describe how one relict tree, the magnificent Ceiba pentandra in the village of Sabalito, carries physical and spiritual importance far out into the world. In poetic language interwoven with scientific fact, she also describes the historical and natural history of this tree and of the ceiba species in general. Katz's photographs of the tree and village amplify this message quietly yet forcefully.

Gretchen Daily is the recipient of the Blue Planet Prize, the world's most prestigious award for environmental sustainability.

One Tree is in the permanent collections of the Vatican Library, the Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University Library, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections,
and Boston Athenæum.

A magician's case of graphic story books

A Lusitano horse must function well in order to be the athlete that works on the farm and performs both in the bullring and in the show ring on demand. The Lusitano must be courageous but must also wait for the signals, the communication from his rider when facing a bull. It is a matter of life or death.

Produced for Veritas Editions, this fine press volume showcases eighteen original platinum/palladium prints and one photogravure by Keron Psillas Oliveira. Photographing on three continents over a period of eleven years, Keron offers some of her most compelling images to reveal the spirit within the Lusitano.

Produced for Veritas Editions, this fine press volume showcases Australia through original photographic-based art from a selection of established and emerging Australian artists. Fifteen tipped in original prints and one loose original print, representing nine different historic printing methods, presented in a clamshell case.
Foreword by Alan Davies, Emeritus Curator of Photographs, State Library of New South Wales

Craig Alan Huber visited each of the twenty-one missions and captured images that express the history and the spirit of these important monuments to Spanish California. Tipped in platinum prints on letterpress printed pages, hand-stitched into an oversize album. Clam-shell box and print folder for loose original prints.

Produced for Veritas Editions. Winner of First Place in the Vermont Center for Photography “By the Books” exhibition, 2016.

Copies of The Spirit Within are in the special collections of the University of Washington Library; UC Berkeley Bancroft Library; Santa Clara University; The Huntington Library; Stanford University Cecil H. Green Library; and the Vatican Library.

Mateo López draws simply and directly in pencil with an engineer's precision. We reprinted each one digitally on Caneletto paper, French folded each page, and stab-stitched the book block to create a facsimile. 150 copies are encased in a cruciform portfolio with a shoelace tie. 30 copies slip into a tray within a clam-shell box that houses a delicately cut paper sculpture, pinned to a facsimile cutting board.