عنوان

Seema's show :

(Number (ISBN

082633847X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Number

b416711

Title Proper

Seema's show :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a life on the left /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sara Halprin ; foreword by Marge Frantz

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albuquerque :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of New Mexico Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 246 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

CounterCulture series

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-241) and index

Text of Note

1905-29 : from Chernigov to California -- 1929-38 : Los Angeles, Tahiti, Los Angeles -- 1938-41 : Yosemite --!940-84 : Jack -- 1985-2000 : a new life

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Text of Note

"At seventeen Seema Aissen got her first job drying prints in a photo-finishing lab in Boston and joined the newly founded Young Communist League; at thirty-three she was hired by Ansel Adams to run his darkroom in Yosemite; at thirty-seven she married the writer Jack Weatherwax and devoted herself to supporting his work; widowed at seventy-nine, she began a new life; at ninety-five she had her first photographic exhibit. Sara Halprin began recording interviews with Seema in 1986 and took the title and narrative frame for this book from that first show. Seema's Show follows Seema's life from her birth in 1905 to radical Jewish parents in Czarist Russia, emigration to England, then Boston and Los Angeles, where she joined the Film and Photo League, began her lifelong work for racial justice, and formed enduring friendships with artists and political activists including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Woody Guthrie. In 1984 Seema moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she became a central figure in progressive culture and began, in 2000, to show her own work."--BOOK JACKET

Weatherwax, Seema,1905-2006

Counterculture-- United States

Russian Americans, Biography

Women photographers-- United States, Biography

Women political activists-- United States, Biography

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Halprin, Sara

Date of Transaction

20050825161741.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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