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1. Rachel Griffin
Rachel Griffin
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A black-and-white portrait of Rachel Griffin leaning agaist a bookcase that sits in front of a large drawing of a figure sitting in a chair., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
2. Leigh Clark-Granville
Leigh Clark-Granville
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A black-and-white portrait of Leigh Clark leaning against a water-heater insulated with an apple-patterned material. Various objects in the cluttered space, such as the stove and utensils hanging on the wall indicate that the space she is pictured in might be a kitchen., http://www.robertmiller.org/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
3. Main Street, Wasco
Main Street, Wasco
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A black-and-white photograph depicting a street corner with a white-washed store front with an old gas pump on the curb in front of it., o@owencareyphoto.com, http://www.owencareyphoto.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
4. Farm Labor--Day Haul to Salem
Farm Labor--Day Haul to Salem
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A black-and-white photograph depicting an older man wearing a rain jacket and a dirty face, sitting in a space cordoned off by a string of chain. Another, younger man sits in the background, slightly out of foucs., Carrasco has photographed in Oregon, Mexico and Europe; she has photographed Chicano, Indian and Russian families. She was the editor of a US government newspaper for migrant farmworkers, many of whom were Mexicans, in Oregon. She felt very strongly about, http://www.americanartco.com/page.aspx?cid=207&id=424, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
5. Untitled, No. 2
Untitled, No. 2
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A black-and-white photograph of a young African-American girl who wears a set of keys on a chain around her neck and hides her eyes from the camera with her arm. A shadow of the girl and the person attempting to capture her on film is visible on the sidewalk in the background., tilgerfoto@mac.com, http://www.stewarttilger.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
6. Dip-Netting in Pools, Wishram
Dip-Netting in Pools, Wishram
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An historic photogravure print of a Native Ameican man fishing with a long net., Born in 1868 in rural Wisconsin, Edward Sherrif Curtis moved with his family to Southern Minnesota before he reached the age of five. Photography was then a very new technology and an even more nascent art form, and Curtis was fascinated by it from a very early age. By the time he reached his teens he had built his own camera. By his mid-teens, Curtis had spent a great deal of time reading about and experimenting with photographic techniques and ideas. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Saint Paul, where he spent more than a year as an apprentice photographer. In 1887, his father's failing health caused the family to move to the Northwest. This move would later turn out to be a major factor in Curtis' subsequent interest in the American Indian. Thus, although he was large self-taught, Curtis was not only well-versed in the fundamentals of photography, but also was a serious and dedicated practitioner by the time he was twenty years old. During his lifetime, Curtis was widely acknowledged as a skilled portrait photographer, master printmaker, film-maker, lecturer, adventurer and mountaineer. Today, however, Curtis is primarily known as a master photographer and ethnographer of the North American Indian. This is undoubtedly as it should be, for he left us a photographic and ethnographic record unparalleled in the history of publishing. This massively ambitious undertaking entitled "The North American Indian" was the principal vehicle Curtis used to communicate his passionate obsession with recording the image, history, culture and spiritual life of the American Indian. This photo-ethnographic study compresses over two thousand original photographic prints (photogravures) as well as approximately six thousand pages of text. The project ultimately cost Curtis his family, his financial security, and his health. Nevertheless, he single-mindedly pursued his intense and powerful vision with an extraordinary sense of mission and thereby left us with an irreplaceable record which, after decades of obscurity, is once again appreciated as an extraordinary artistic and historical achievement. The fact that Curtis was able to make such an intimate record during the very period when the American Indian's way of life was being destroyed by the White man, makes his accomplishment all the more remarkable. (1987, Christopher Cardozo, Guest Curator for a Curtis exhibition as the Minnesota Museum of Art), http://www.edwardscurtis.com/curtisbio.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
7. Portland's SW Front Ave.
Portland's SW Front Ave.
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An historic, black-and-white photograph of Portland's SW Front Street. Neo-classic architecture and an electric-car rail dominate the scene., http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/white_minor.php, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
8. Studio c. 1895
Studio c. 1895
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A black-and-white photograph of a cluttered interior space. Shelves along the wall on both sides of a corner are packed with bottles, scraps of paper and fabirc, jars containing feathers, and other miscellaneous items. Several molds of human ears and a foot hang on the wall, and a length of rope with what appears to be a noose tied into it hangs from the ceiling., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
9. New American Gothic
New American Gothic
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A black-and-white photograph of two large, older people standing in front of an old car. The woman wears a floral- printed dress, stalkings that bunch at her ankles, black shoes, and thick glasses. The man wears a plaid shirt, overalls rolled up once at the bottom, and a hat while he holds a can of something labeled "Blitz.", http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/gh/cloutiercoll.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
10. Destiny Afternoon
Destiny Afternoon
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A black-and-white photograph depicting two young children, one male and one female, sitting side by side in front of a building. The boy, who is slightly younger than the girl, holds a mask cut from paper over part of his face while also grasping a camera in his lap. The girl next to him sits with one knee pulled to her chest while holding onto a mug., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
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