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Chamlee, Paula (Photographer) & Thompson, George F. (Contributor) : High Plains Farm: Photographs And Text By Paula Chamlee: The Limited Edition

Lodima Press, Revere, PA, 1996

ISBN 0960564691

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 176 pages. The photographer's second collection. One of the most beautiful and most important American photography books of the last decade of the 20th century. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Superior to and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published as part of the ongoing series by The American Center for American Places to document valuable natural and man-made environments in the United States for posterity, the collection has been called the photographic equivalent of Willa Cather's great novels. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Paula Chamlee and P. M. Design Studios: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Khaki cloth boards with red titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and accompanying text by Paula Chamlee. Foreword by George F. Thompson. List of Plates appended at the end with miniature reproductions and detailed captions. Matching khaki cloth slipcase with red titles embossed on one side. Printed using 65-pound cover Quintessence stock paper from laser-scanned Fultone negatives in the United States to the highest standards. Every detail in the production was supervised by the photographer and produced to the exacting standards that are a hallmark of Lodima Press. The photographs, from 8 X 10 inch and 5 X 7 inch contact prints, are reproduced with exceptional fidelity to the tonal delicacy and luminosity of the original prints. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Paula Chamlee's "High Plains Farm". Loving photographs of the farm on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle where Paula Chamlee grew up. Her parents (in their late eighties at the time of the book's publication) still farm their 1, 100 acres by themselves. "Paula Chamlee knows her landscapes. But, oh, these are different photographs, for these are landscapes of the human heart. They sweep from the inner soul to the infinite horizon, delineating the terrain of our memories, the range of our passions, and the expanse of our mortality. Her series remain simultaneously epic in its vision and intimate in its humanity" (Roy Flukinger). An absolute "must-have" title for Paula Chamlee collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page (Number 124). It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen by Paula Chamlee. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 81 plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAULA CHAMLEE AND MICHAEL A. SMITH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0960564691.

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