Artist Book Collection
By: Kathryn Fiorita
At UW-Milwaukee's library, Special Collections is the university's collection of rare books and special printed materials. The collections is open to the public. The collections supports a large range of research and teaching activities in the arts, social science and many others. As a class, we went to view photography books chosen by Librarian, Max Yela.
The first book that I looked at was Life’s a beach by Martin Parr. This book is photographs of beach life over many decades, documenting all aspects of those ritual leisure activities: close up of people sun bathing and people swimming. Some of the moment that he captured are snapshot of people just doing their things at the beach. Parr documented people in the UK to China, Argentina and Thailand.
Other book was interesting was Jess T. Dugan’s Every Breath We Drew. This book examines the power of identity, desire, and connection through the art of portraiture.
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