Irving B. Ellis (1902-1977) was an archetypal Pictorialist photographer. A physician by training and a photographer by avocation, he was a dedicated and much-awarded maker of pictures. Active as a photographer during the decades just before and after the Second World War, Ellis experienced the burgeoning growth of amateur photography clubs, the expansion of corporate photography businesses and the establishment of photographic collections in major art museums across the country. This volume, based on an extensive photographic and documentary archive, places Ellis' work within the context of the Pictorialist movement in an effort to gain a better understanding of the complex undercurrents that helped to define this era of American photographic history. Susan Danly contributes essays on the development of Ellis' photographic style and the use of his photographs in advertising, and Chris Thompson contributes an interview with photographer Judy Ellis Glickman, Ellis' daughter and the subject of much of his work.

For The Love of It: The Photography of Irving Bennett Ellis

Arts & Photography

Thompson, Chris

Danly, Susan

Glickman, Judy

Individual Artists

Ellis Press

The Poetry of Rock: The Golden Years

Pichaske, David

Dust Jacket notes: "Blei weaves a tapestry of lives and landscape, past and present, earth and water, nature and man, celebrating the unique heritage of Door County, Wisconsin. He suggests the precariousness of this balance, in Door County and wherever the natural environment is threatened by forces without and within. At a time of concern over endangered species, Door Way expresses concern for endangered spaces, for the spirit of the landscape and tis people...."

Door Way

History

Blei, Norbert

Americas

Door way: The people in the landscape

Weaving a tapestry of lives and landscapes, past and present, earth and water, Norbert Blei celebrates the unique heritage of Door County, Wisconsin, a spectacular peninsula reaching into Lake Michigan. Blei ponders the balance of nature in a place where locals, tourists, and developers vie with the native flora and fauna of forests and lakeshore.

Winter Book

BLEI, Norbet

Science & Math

UB03 paints realistic portrait in words and photographs of Ulaanbaatar and rural Mongolia (including the Gobi) during the author's Fulbright year of 2003. Pichaske meditates on trash and the Black Market, on opera singers and morin khuur concerts, on dogs and fences and slum districts and nomadic life in one of the harshest landscapes on the planet. His photos are rarely picturesque or touristy: he gives us instead stairs leading to nowhere, bags of groceries hanging outside of dormitory windows, dogs snoozing in the sun, MonRonald's Restaurant and Life Kife Bar &amp; Pub, a section of paving stones mosaiced around the root of a tree, a herder on horseback pointing directions in the vast Gobi emptiness.

UB03: A Season in Outer Mongolia

Pichaske, David R.

This collection of hard-edged prose poems takes no prisoners. Louis walks the tightrope between the sacred and the profane with humor, anger, and compassion, all dispensed with a startling clarity of vision. These poems, written from 1999 to 2004, derive from Louis’s self-imposed exile in the rural deadlands of southwestern Minnesota.

Evil Corn

Literature & Fiction

Louis, Adrian C.

Poetry

A compilation of poems from Paul Ruffin's five earlier books of poetry plus new poems. The collection focuses on childhood memories of growing up in Mississippi, recent experiences in Texas, and the relationship between men and woman.

Cleaning the Well: Poems Old and New

Paul Ruffin

A Higher Level tells the captivating story of the Southwest (Minnesota) State University women's tennis team as it rose from rural obscurity to become a national small-college powerhouse under Hall of Fame Coach Hugh Curtler, chair of the school's Philosophy Department and author of a dozen published books. Yost describes the school's program and facilities, profiles players, and most importantly details Curtler's five-point approach to successful coaching at the college level, advice useful to coaches of all sports at all levels.

A Higher Level

Dana Yost

Sports & Outdoors

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