A Doubtful River - Brossura

Dawson, Robert; Goin, Peter; Webb, Mary Margaret

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0874175690 ISBN 13: 9780874175691

Casa editrice: Univ of Nevada Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Essays and photographs describe the course of the Truckee River and the people who depend on the river's water.

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vRobert Dawson is a gifted photographer of the American West. His photographs have been recognized by a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruttenberg Fellowship from The Friends of Photography, a Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (with Gray Brechin) and several other major grants, awards, and fellowships. He has published several books.

He is founder and co-director with his wife, Ellen Manchester, of the Water in the West Project, a large-scale collaboration with several other photographers and advisors. Work from the project was published in A River Too Far: The Past and Future of the Arid West (University of Nevada Press, 1991) and Arid Waters: Photographs From the Water in the West Project (University of Nevada Press, 1992). An archive of the Water in the West project is in the permanent collection of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Dawson's photographs are in several other permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A native of Sacramento, California, Dawson received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and his M.A. from San Francisco State University. He is currently an instructor of photography at Stanford University and San Jose State University. He resides in San Francisco with his wife and son.

Peter Goin is a Foundation Professor of Art in photography and videography at the University of Nevada, Reno. His photographs have been exhibited in more than fifty museums nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Goin's video work has earned him an EMMY nomination as well as the Best Experimental Video Award at the 2001 New York International Film & Video Festival. At the turn of the new century, he was awarded the Governor’s Millennium Award for Excellence in the Arts. Peter Goin is the author, co-author, or editor of several books including Nuclear Landscapes (1991), Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe (1992), Arid Waters: Photographs from the Water in the West Project (1992), Humanature (1996),A Doubtful River (2000), Changing Mines in America (2004), and Black Rock (2005). Please visit Peter Goin's website: www.petergoin.com

Mary Webb teaches writing at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her M.A. in English (summa cum laude) from Northern Arizona University.

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Book by Dawson Robert Goin Peter Webb Mary

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• Editore: Univ of Nevada Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0874175690
• ISBN 13: 9780874175691
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176