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Elizabeth Billups and Gerry Adams
Forthcoming George F. Thompson Publishing, Fall 2012
This unique collaboration between Gerry Adams, the renowned leader of Sinn Fein, and Elizabeth Billups, a Santa Fe-based photographer and activist, reveals the Ireland not always seen in guidebooks, as well as a side of Adams not usually captured in the news.
He shares personal anecdotes and family stories along with relevant historical details, legends, and myths, complemented by Billups’ photographs and her impressions of the country culled over many years and many visits. Although Adams does not focus on politics, his discussion of his participation in the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement adds a timely dimension to his text.
Gerry Adams has been president of Sinn Fein, the fastest growing party in Ireland, north and south, since 1983. He has served as a member of Parliament for West Belfast from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to the present. He is he author of several books, including A Farther Shore: Ireland’s Long Road to Peace, which was published to wide acclaim by Random House in 2003. He lives in Belfast.
Elizabeth Billups is a Santa Fe-based photographer and political activist who has worked with the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council, among others. Her photography has been exhibited in the U.S. and Ireland.
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Bill Bamberger
Essay by Richard B. WoodwardForeword by tk
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Basketball is the only major league and Olympic ballgame that was invented by North Americans. Its popularity in the U. S. is near mythic, matched only by baseball and football, and its players are icons and role models for American youth. Its appeal is universal, dissolving ethnic, demographic and regional barriers.
Bill Bamberger has traveled all across America taking pictures of hoops, from the deserts of Arizona to the inner city of New York. There are lonely hoops out on the prairie, hoops tacked to urban steel walls, hoops sandwiched in between the garage and the back yard. These stunning color photographs of hoops and courts all across America will appeal to anyone who loves basketball––and even those who don’t––but who is fascinated by American culture and our ongoing love affair with the sport. These images of hoops connect us to the place of basketball in our lives––where we play it, how we feel about it, and what it means to us culturally.
Bill Bamberger is a photographer based in North Carolina whose work explores large social issues of our time. His Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory was published to wide acclaim by The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University with W. W. Norton. Richard B. Woodward is a critic and journalist based in New York who has written extensively about art and photography.
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Joan Myers
Essay by William deBuysForthcoming Fall 2012 George F. Thompson Publishing
WILD INDIA is inspired by Joan Myers’s encounters with jungles and animals in remote areas of India, and by Kipling’s Just So Stories, which she read, as many of us did, as a child. WILD INDIA is her homage both to that book and to the wild parts of India that few travelers ever see, much less know about, and which are rapidly vanishing in the face of increasing development and industrialization.
Joan Myers has been taking photographs for more than thirty years, exploring the relationships between people and the land. Her highly acclaimed work has been the focus of three Smithsonian exhibitions, numerous solo and group shows, and six books.
They include Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey (with text by Sandra Blakeslee), which was published by Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, and awarded Honorable Mention in the American Association of Museums’ 2006 Publication Competition. Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-down California (with text by William deBuys), won the 1999 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction, and the 1999 William P. Clements Prize for the best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America; it was published by the University of New Mexico Press. Her current work centers on volcanic and geothermal sites around the world.
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Erika Diettes
Essays by tkForthcoming Fall 2012 George F. Thompson Publishing
A poignant memorial to the victims of Colombia’s ongoing, armed conflict, the images in DRIFTING AWAY are at once beautiful and deeply moving. Amplified by images of the photographs being shown in memorials in areas where the victims were “disappeared,” as well as by essays exploring the social and political implications of the work, this book will be a significant resource in contemporary Latin American studies, as well as for social anthropologists, human rights workers, and those wanting to understand at a very basic level the human cost of terrorism. The exhibition of the work in DRIFTING AWAY was the most viewed show in the history of the Nacional Museo de Colombia. The work has also been shown in the U.S. at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and other venues.
Erika Diettes is a Colombian photographer and social anthropologist whose work is subtle, yet gut-wrenching, and focuses on the deeply personal yet universal effects of political violence and injustice. Her first book, Silencios, was on survivors of the Holocaust now living in Colombia. It was published by Consuelo Mendoza Ediciones in 2005, and is available in the U.S. through photo-eye and the Jewish Museum.
