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Iceland: A Personal View, Vol. 1 and 2

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Vol. 1: Photographs and Preface by Paula Chamlee

Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen

Hardbound Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies
81 reproductions, 144 pages, 9" x 11"

Vol. 2: Photographs and Preface by Michael A. Smith

Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen

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79 reproductions, 108 pages, 9" x 17"

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Richard Copeland Miller - Passage: Europe

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Passage: Europe is a rare and beautiful lyric poem through the medium of photography. Richard Copeland Miller's haunting images in Passage: Europe reveal his incisive and compassionate vision of the mysteries and realities of everyday life.

Printed By SALTO in 600-line screen quadtone on 200gsm paper

86 reproductions, 156 pages

12 ½" x 12 ½"

Only a few copies remain

Passage: Europe is a rare and beautiful lyric poem through the medium of photography. Richard Copeland Miller's haunting images in Passage: Europe reveal his incisive and compassionate vision of the mysteries and realities of everyday life.

Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Vol. 1 and 2

Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Vol. 1 and 2

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Vol. I: Photographs by Paula Chamlee

Preface by Paula Chamlee and Michael A. Smith

Foreword by Ferenc Máté
Essay by Robert Sobieszek

70 reproductions, 160 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
9 5/8" x 11 1/2"

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Vol. II: Photographs by Michael A. Smith

59 reproductions, 128 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
9 5/8" x 20"

Hardbound edition of 2900 copies
Special slipcase signed and numbered edition of 250 copies with matching numbers

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Paula Chamlee - Madonnina

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Photographs by Paula Chamlee

Foreword by Steven Maklansky
Essay by Giuliana Bianchi Caleri

Translation by Laura Wittman

Hardbound edition of 2900 copies
Special slipcase signed and numbered edition of 100 copies

50 reproductions, 96 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
10"x9"

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While photographing throughout Tuscany in 2000 and 2001, Paula Chamlee found herself drawn to the great beauty, variety, and extraordinary craftsmanship of the Madonnina shrines that can be found everywhere in Tuscany. Throughout the countryside and in towns and villages, these lovingly crafted personal shrines to the Virgin Mary bear witness to a deep-seated and popular faith in the Holy Virgin and the humanity she embodies. With a tradition dating back to antiquity, these cultural and religious objects continue to be created even today as protection for personal property, homes and their inhabitants.

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Los Crepusculos de la Imaginacion

$95.00

Photographs and preface
by the late Venezuelan photographer
Alejandro López de Haro R.

Text in Spanish with an English translation
Signed and numbered edition of 300 copies

Printed in Belgium by Salto in 600-line screen quadtone
on 200 gsm Gardapat 13 to match the original platinum prints

40 pages
14 reproductions
10 " x 9 1/2 "

Only 1 copy remaining

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Peter Elliston - Stones and Marks

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Photographs and Text by Peter Elliston

The ancient stones speak. In every country our ancestors have left their marksinscriptions on rocks, standing stones, and monuments that are being slowly eroded by natural forces and the indifference of humans. From these remaining stones and marks, we are able to gather the scant, seductive clues left behind by vanished civilizations’ messages from the silenced voices of our ancestors.

Regular Hardbound Edition of 1500 Copies

77 reproductions, 172 pages

13" x 11"

Nathan Lyons - Whiteout

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Photographs by Nathan Lyons
Poems by Marvin Bell

56 pages, 23 reproductions

9"x7"

The Special Edition of Whiteout is signed by both Lyons and Bell and comes with an “Elvis” original 5x7-inch silver gelatin print, mounted and overmatted on Artcare archival 4-ply mat board 14" x 11". Only 15 prints remain, each signed on the back by Lyons.

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THE PORTFOLIOS OF BRETT WESTON

A NINETEEN-VOLUME SERIES

Between 1939 and 1980 Brett Weston produced eighteen limited edition portfolios of original photographs. He believed passionately in the power of his original prints and chose the portfolio as the way to reach an expanded audience while still maintaining control over image quality. Today, Weston’s original portfolios are rare, expensive, and relatively inaccessible in museums, archives, libraries, or private collections.

Printing technology now makes it possible, however, to bring the Brett Weston portfolios to a larger audience in reproductions that, in their rich detail, tonal scale and color, surface quality, and aesthetic appeal, are almost indistinguishable from the original prints. Printed in Belgium by Salto in unprecedented 600-line screen quadtone, and later by Dual Graphics in 400-line screen quadtone (after Salto ceased printing books). Printed on heavy coated stock, the photographs have been reproduced actual size whenever possible.

To recreate the feeling of the original portfolios, great care has been taken not only with the reproduction of the photographs, but with every aspect of these books. Where there is text in the portfolios, it is reproduced in facsimile, and the color of each book’s cover has been selected to match the covers of the original portfolio cases.

The art historian Roger Aikin, a close friend of Brett’s, has provided an introductory essay for each book in the series with writing that sets the photographs in the context of Weston’s life and career. Dr. Aikin’s critical analysis comparing the photographs of Brett and those of his father was published in 1973 and remains the finest analysis of its type we have ever seen.

Many of the photographs in these new books have never before been reproduced. The hardbound edition is limited to 250 numbered copies and the softbound edition is limited to 1000 copies.

In addition to the 16 portfolios there are 3 additional volumes in the series. Number 17, Prints for Students, is a collection of prints that Brett offered to students at a significantly discounted price. Number 18 is the Special Edition of 1951. Number 19 is a Career Overview by the art historian Roger Aikin. Also included in the Career Overview is a “Memoir” by the Michael A. Smith, who knew Brett well and who is the publisher of Lodima Press books. Numbers 18 and 19 are contained in the same binding making 18 books in the set.

The hardbound copies were originally available only to subscribers to the entire series. A very limited number remain from subscriptions that were cancelled, and are available individually. The price for each of these is currently $250. Still fewer complete sets of the hardbound books are available. These complete sets are currently priced at $3000.

The softbound edition is limited to 1000 copies, and books are available individually for $59.95 to $79.95 each. The entire softbound set is discounted to $895.

Number 1. San Francisco (1939)
Number 2. White Sands (1949, 1976)
Number 3. New York (1951)
Number 4. Fifteen Photographs (1961)
Number 5. Ten Photographs (1963)
Number 6. Baja California (1967)
Number 7. Fifteen Photographs of Japan (1970)
Number 8. Europe (1973)
Number 9. Oregon (1975)
Number 10. Portraits of My Father (1976)

Number 11. Vintage Collection (1976)
Number 12. Twenty Photographs (1978)
Number 13. Alaska (1978)
Number 14. Hawaii - Leaves and Lava (1980)
Number 15. Abstractions #1 1925–1980
Number 16. Abstractions #2 1927–1980
Number 17. Prints for Students
Number 18. Special Edition of 1951
Number 19. Career Overview
(Numbers 18 and 19 in one binding.)

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Brett Weston - San Francisco

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Volume 1 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston series

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
10 reproductions, 32 pages

12 1/2" x 12 1/2"

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Brett Weston - Ten Photographs

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Volume 5 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston series

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
10 reproductions, 36 pages

12 1/2” x 12 1/2”

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Brett Weston - Oregon

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Volume 9 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Introduction by Bernard Freemesser

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
15 reproductions, 44 pages
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - Alaska

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Volume 13 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Statement by Brett Weston

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
48 pages 15 Reproductions
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

Originally Portfolio Published in 1978

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Brett Weston - Prints for Students

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Volume 17 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
58 pages 20 Reproductions
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - White Sands

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Volume 2 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston series

Introduction by Nancy Newhall
Afterword by Roger Aikin

The original White Sands portfolio, produced in 1949, contained twelve photographs and was printed in an edition of fifty. In 1975 Weston printed a second edition of the portfolio in an edition of seventeen. It included eight of the original ten photographs made in the 1940s (negatives from two of the photographs in the original portfolio were damaged and unprintable), two others from the 1940s that had not been included in the first portfolio (Plates 11 and 12), and two from 1975 (Plates 13 and 14), for a total of twelve prints.

White Sands contains the original ten photographs plus the four new pictures from Weston's 1975 edition. The original 1949 title page and the introduction by Nancy Newhall are reproduced in facsimile. Included is an afterword by art historian Roger Aikin. As a bonus, we have included an additional photograph along with a facsimile reproduction of Brett's letter describing the picture as "Edward's favorite." Although it was not included in either of the original portfolios, Brett included it as a gift with the portfolio from which this book has been reproduced.

15 reproductions, 56 pages
12 1/2" x 12 1/2"

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Brett Weston - Baja California

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Volume 6 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
15 reproductions, 44 pages

12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - Portraits of My Father

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Volume 10 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

10 Photographs made from 1929 to 1942

This portfolio contains a series of portraits made of his father, Edward Weston, between 1929 and 1942. As Roger Aikin explains in the Afterword, although it is not generally acknowledged, Brett influenced his father as much as Edward influenced him. Brett always graciously acknowledged his debt to his father. That he would compose a portfolio only of portraits of Edward is a generous mark of his love and respect.

Ansel Adams contributed an Introduction to Portraits of My Father.

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
Foreword by Ansel Adams

10 reproductions, 36 pages
12 1/2" x 12 1/2"

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Brett Weston - Hawaii: Leaves and Lava

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Volume 14 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Introduction by Boone Hekili Morrison

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
48 pages 15 Reproductions

12 1/2 x 12 1/2

Originally Portfolio Published in 1980

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Brett Weston - Special Edition of 1951 and Career Overview

Brett Weston - Special Edition of 1951 and Career Overview

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Volume 18 and 19 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
56 pages, 5 Plates, a reproduction of Brett’s original brochure, and 4 essay illustrations
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - New York

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Volume 3 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston series

Introduction by Beaumont Newhall
Afterword by Roger Aikin

12 reproductions, 44 pages

12 1/2" x 12 1/2"

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Brett Weston - Japan

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Volume 7 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
15 reproductions, 44 pages

12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - Vintage Collection

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Volume 11 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Introduction by Wynn Bullock

Statement by Brett Weston

Afterword by Roger Aikin

15 reproductions, 44 pages
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
Originally Portfolio Published in 1976
12 1/2 x 12 1/2"

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Brett Weston - Abstractions No. 1 1925–1980

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Volume 15 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Foreword by Don Ross
Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
58 pages 20 Reproductions
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

Originally Portfolio Published in 1980

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The Portfolios of Brett Weston - Complete Set

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The Portfolios of Brett Weston - Complete Set

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Volumes 1-19

Softbound Edition Limited to 1000 sets

Hardbound Edition Limited to 250 sets.

Limited number of complete softbound sets available

Only 8 complete hardbound sets available

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Brett Weston - Fifteen Photographs

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Volume 4 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston series

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
15 reproductions, 44 pages

12 1/2” x 12 1/2”

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Brett Weston - Europe

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Volume 8 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Introduction by Gerald Robinson

Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
12 reproductions, 48 pages

12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - Twenty Photographs

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Volume 12 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Introduction by Rossario Mazzeo
Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
Originally Portfolio Published in 1977

20 reproductions, 60 pages
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

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Brett Weston - Abstractions No. 2 1927–1980

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Volume 16 in the Portfolios of Brett Weston

Foreword by Don Ross
Afterword by Roger Aikin

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by Dual Graphics in 400 Line Screen Quadtone
58 pages 20 Reproductions
12 1/2 x 12 1/2

Originally Portfolio Published in 1980

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Following the publication of Edward Weston: Life Work (2004)
and the 19 volumes of the Portfolios of Brett Weston (2005–2017), we have now published

EdWard Weston

Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio

The entire portfolio is reproduced in facsimile. We have even used a different paper, similar to that which was used in the original portfolio to print Edward’s portfolio text pages.

And as an extra bonus for the book, James L. Enyeart, former Director of the Center for Creative Photography (the repository of the Edward Weston Archive), has written “A Memoir” about the history of CCP’s acquisition of Edward’s entire archive.

The reproductions are of the highest quality—a hallmark of all Lodima Press books.

Book specifications:
Hardbound, 40 pages, 12.5 x 12.5 inches
Reproduced in 400-line screen quadtone
Retail price is $75

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Edward Weston - 50th Anniversary Portfolio

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Edward Weston - 50th Anniversary Portfolio

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The entire portfolio is reproduced in facsimile. We have even used a different paper, similar to that which was used in the original portfolio to print Edward’s portfolio text pages.

And as an extra bonus for the book, James L. Enyeart, former Director of the Center for Creative Photography (the repository of the Edward Weston Archive), has written “A Memoir” about the history of CCP’s acquisition of Edward’s entire archive.

The reproductions are of the highest quality—a hallmark of all Lodima Press books.

Book specifications: Hardbound, 40 pages, 12.5 x 12.5 inches.

Printed in 400-line screen quadtone.

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Edward Weston: Life Work

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Special Limited Edition: Limited to 100 copies

Edward Weston: Life Work is drawn from the private collection of Michael P. Mattis and Judith G. Hochberg, whose joint writing in the Preface charmingly details their passion and quest for the work of this modern master.

The limited edition includes an original gelatin silver contact print made from a negative by Tina Modotti, printed by photographer Paula Chamlee, and specially toned by Chicago Albumen Works in order to match the original by Modotti.

A "must-have" publication for every photography lover's library.

110 reproductions
252 pages, 12" x 12 1/2"

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Edward Weston: Life Work is drawn from the private collection of Michael P. Mattis and Judith G. Hochberg, whose joint writing in the Preface charmingly details their passion and quest for the work of this modern master.

The limited edition includes an original gelatin silver contact print made from a negative by Tina Modotti, printed by photographer Paula Chamlee, and specially toned by Chicago Albumen Works in order to match the original by Modotti.

A "must-have" publication for every photography lover's library.

110 reproductions
252 pages, 12" x 12 1/2"

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Michael A. Smith - Iceland: A Personal View, Vol. 2

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Michael A. Smith - Iceland: A Personal View, Vol. 2

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Photographs and Preface by Michael A. Smith
Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen

Publication: 2015
79 reproductions, 108 pages
9" x 17"

Regular Hardbound Edition of 500 Copies
Special Limited Slipcase Edition of 100 Copies
ISBN: 978-1-888899-79-4

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Ocean Variations

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Photographs by Michael A. Smith

Hardbound Edition limited to 550 signed and numbered copies
40 pages, 29 reproductions
9" x 17"

ISBN: 978-1888899-72-7

Michael A. Smith - Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Vol. 2

Michael A. Smith - Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Vol. 2

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Photographs and Preface by Michael A. Smith

Foreword by Ferenc Máté
Essay by Robert Sobieszek

Hardbound edition of 1000 copies
Special slipcased, signed and numbered edition of 250 copies
Publication: 2004

128 pages, 59 reproductions
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
10" x 20"

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Chicago: Loop | Chicago: Lake

$75.00 $95.00

Two books in one—this cleverly designed book has two front covers that are revealed by flipping the book over.

CHICAGO: LOOP by Michael A. Smith

41 reproductions from 8"x20" contact prints

CHICAGO: LAKE by Paula Chamlee

79 reproductions of photographs, drawings, assemblages, ephemeral constructions, and writing presented in diptychs, triptychs, and quartets

All books are signed by Smith and Chamlee on the colophon pages in the middle of the book.

Hardbound Edition limited to 500 signed copies

104 Pages
8 1/2" x 16 3/4"

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Michael A. Smith: A Visual Journey

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Photographs from Twenty Five Years

Foreword by Marianne Fulton
Essay by John Bratnober

The challenge always is to balance the allure of the subject matter with my own visual concerns and sense of abstraction. — Michael A. Smith

Hardbound Edition of 2750 copies and a numbered, custom-bound and slipcased limited edition of 250.
Published: 1992
176 reproductions, 192 pages
9 5/8" x 11"
ISBN: 978-09605646-4-0"

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The Students of Deep Springs College

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Photographs by Michael A. Smith

Essay by L. Jackson Newell
Afterword by William T. Vollmann

The Students of Deep Springs College is an artistic gem and a superb introduction to one of America's most interesting and unusual academic institutions. This remarkable and fascinating book is an important contribution to our understanding of higher education.
— Bryce Jordan, President Emeritus

The Pennsylvania State University

Hardbound Edition of 2,850 copies
53 reproductions 84 pages
Printed in 600-line screen quadtone
11" x 9 1/2"

Michael A Smith – Landscapes 1975-1979

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Paula Chamlee - Natural Connections

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Photographs by Paula Chamlee
Accompanied by Selections from her Journals
Essay by Estelle Jussim

44 reproductions, 112 pages
9 5/8 " x 11 1/2 "

Limited to an edition of 2,750 regular hardbound copies and a signed, numbered, custom-bound and slipcased limited edition of 250.

Publication: 1994

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Paula Chamlee - Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Vol. 1

Paula Chamlee - Tuscany: Wandering the Back Roads, Vol. 1

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Photographs and Preface by Paula Chamlee

Foreword by Ferenc Máté
Essay by Robert Sobieszek

Hardbound edition of 1000 copies
Special slipcased, signed and numbered edition of 250 copies
Publication: 2004

70 reproductions, 160 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
10 x 11 1/2"

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Paula Chamlee - Iceland: A Personal View, Vol. 1

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Paula Chamlee - Iceland: A Personal View, Vol. 1

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Photographs and Preface by Paula Chamlee
Foreword by Omar Ragnarsson
Essay by Jens Erdman Rasmussen

Hardbound Edition of 500 signed and numbered copies
Special Limited Slipcase Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies
81 reproductions, 144 pages - 9" x 11"

Publication: 2015

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Paula Chamlee - High Plains Farm

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Photographs and Text by Paula Chamlee
Foreword by George Thompson

Limited to an edition of 2,750 regular hardbound copies and a signed, numbered, custom-bound and slipcased limited edition of 250.

Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places: 1996

After thirty-three years, Paula Chamlee returned home to photograph and write about the farm where she grew up on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle, a farm where her parents, now in their late eighties, still farm their 1,100 acres all by themselves. With intensity and insight, she has created a work of extraordinary depth and cultural significance. This emotionally charged and aesthetically powerful document provides an intimate look at her home place and reveals a way of life and value system that are quickly vanishing.

Every detail in the production of this exquisite book was supervised by the photographer and produced to the exacting standards that are a hallmark of Lodima Press. The photographs, from 8x10-inch and 5x7-inch contact prints, are reproduced on heavy cover stock by Gardner Lithograph with exceptional fidelity to the tonal delicacy and luminosity of the original prints. A sturdy and elegant French-fold dust jacket protects and complements this fine book.

Chamlee's writing in the introduction sets her photographs in the context of Texas history and her family heritage. In addition, her extensive "Notes on the Photographs" provides information and insights about the pictures and evokes the flavor of farm life in the twentieth century. In the Foreword, George F. Thompson meditates on the profound place that rural life, especially the family farm, still holds in the nation's collective imagination and memory. The combination of photographs and writing inHigh Plains Farm creates a book that will find a place of enduring value and significance not only in Texas art and history, but also in the archives of American art and cultural studies.

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Paula Chamlee - Madonnina

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Photographs by Paula Chamlee

Foreword by Steven Maklansky
Essay by Giuliana Bianchi Caleri

Translation by Laura Wittman

Hardbound edition of 2900 copies
Special slipcase signed and numbered edition of 100 copies

50 reproductions, 96 pages
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen quadtone
10"x9"

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Twenty Corner Markets and One in the Middle of the Block

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Twenty Corner Markets and One in the Middle of the Block

$400.00

Photographs and Text by Paula Chamlee

Hardbound Edition of only 550 copies
all signed and numbered by the photographer

Fine linen binding with tipped-in cover plate

Publication: 1997
21 reproductions, 32 pages
9 1/2 " x 10 "

ISBN: 978-1-888899-00-X

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CHICAGO: LOOP by Michael A. Smith

41 reproductions from 8"x20" contact prints

CHICAGO: LAKE by Paula Chamlee

79 reproductions of photographs, drawings, assemblages, ephemeral constructions, and writing presented in diptychs, triptychs, and quartets

All books are signed by Smith and Chamlee on the colophon pages in the middle of the book.

Hardbound Edition limited to 500 signed copies

104 Pages
8 1/2" x 16 3/4"

Lodima Press books are works of art in themselves.
Stephen Perloff Editor and Publisher
"The Photography Collectors' Newsletter"

LODIMA PRESS

A Small Independent Press Dedicated to Publishing Photography Books of Exceptional Quality

THE LODIMA PRESS PORTFOLIO BOOK SERIES

“I do think this is one of the most exciting publishing projects in recent years. If I had stayed in publishing I would have fantasized about producing a series like yours.”

— Bill Jay

This is an ongoing series of beautiful, yet affordable photography books of previously unpublished work by leading and emerging contemporary photographers. These books are printed to the high standards for which Lodima Press has become known—600-line screen quadtone printed by Salto2 in Belgium—insuring that the reproductions are true to the originals.

Each book in the series contains from 10 to 18 photographs and includes a statement by the photographer. The books have 24 pages and are 9 5/8″ x 8 5/8″ in size.

Published in a signed and numbered hardbound edition limited to 100 copies for $135 each. They are available only to subscribers to the entire series. The softbound edition is limited to 1000 copies, and books are available individually for $39.95 each or by subscription to the entire series for $29.95 each.

The series was available in both a softbound edition limited to 1000 copies (sold individually and by subscription to the entire series), and a hardbound edition limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, originally available as a complete set and by subscription only. We are now making available the few signed and numbered books from incomplete sets.

PORTFOLIO BOOK BY PHOTOGRAPHER

1. Nicholas Nixon – Home
2. Carl Chiarenza – Solitudes
3. George Tice – Common Mementos
4. Keith Carter – Opera Nuda
5. Linda Connor – Heaven|Earth
6. Larry Fink – Primal Elegance
7. Arthur Tress – Planets
8. Marilyn Bridges – Flights Through Time

9. Paul Caponigro – Stone Churches of Ireland
10. Douglas Mellor – Still
11. Hans Bol – The Studios of Pietrasanta
12. Robert Adams – Close at Hand
13. Eric Lindbloom – Salt Grass
14. Arno Rafael Minkkinen – Balanced Equation

Nicholas Nixon - Home

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Volume 1 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Photographs from an ongoing series made in Nixon's home.

[These photographs are] a way of making moments of whim, of feeling, have more shape than words could ever give them.
Nicholas Nixon

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies

Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
18 Reproductions

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Linda Connor - Heaven | Earth

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Volume 5 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

A series of photographs of the churches of Cappodocia.

Carved into the soft bedrock of the Cappodocia region of Turkey are many early Christian churches, chapels, and entire monasteries. It seems wonderfully human to carve sanctuaries into the earth whose purpose is to reach to heaven. — Linda Connor

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
17 Reproductions
Softbound Edition Limited to 1000 copies

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Paul Caponigro - Stone Churches of Ireland

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Paul Caponigro - Stone Churches of Ireland

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Volume 9 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

An extension of Caponigro's photographs of megaliths and monoliths.

. . . stone churches date from around the sixth to seventh centuries . . . in their simplicity of using the bones of the Mother Earth and manner of integrating all within the land, they seemed to echo the pagan past of the megaliths that evoked the mysteries of nature. — Paul Caponigro

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies

Hardbound Edition of 100 Signed and Numbered Copies (only four individual copies available)

Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages
14 Reproductions

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Eric Lindbloom - Salt Grass

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Volume 13 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

". . . gorgeous printing. . . a rare poetic use of beautiful photographs." — David Vestal

As the first prints came up in the developing tray they seemed to contain ciphers of a lost language. Try as we will to make a fair representation of things in the world that move us, metaphors know the trick of entering the work through a small aperture in a fraction of a second. — Eric Lindbloom

Softbound Edition of 1000 Copies
Printed by SALTO in 600 Line Screen Quadtone
9 5/8 x 8 5/8-inches - 24 Pages

17 Reproductions

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Carl Chairenza - Solitudes

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Volume 2 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Photographs made especially for this booka continuation of Chiarenza's examination of the metaphorical possibilities of photography.

What is here cannot be said. . . Calm, harmonious retreats. Silent, yet swollen with sound. — Carl Chiarenza

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Larry Fink - Primal Elegance

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Volume 6 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Photographs of praying mantises. A surprise for those who think they know Larry Fink’s photographs.

I found them at home, in the fields and on the sills of each window. . . still life thrusting, going through its cycle. It has been five months on my knees, three hours each day, camera in hand searching for images that allow me entry in a world where I cannot be. . . . I became what I beheld. — Larry Fink

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DW Mellor - Still

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Volume 10 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Photographs that come close to seventeenth century Dutch painting.

The sheer power of scrutiny, the act of intensely looking is a manner of possession. These images are possessions of possessions. – Douglas Mellor

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Arno Rafael Minkkinen - Balanced Equation

Arno Rafael Minkkinen - Balanced Equation

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Volume 14 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

The surprise of the unpredictable guides my photography. The ideas aren’t conceived inside my viewfinder; their appearance happens first inside my mind. What the camera sees only becomes visible weeks, months, or sometimes years later when I process the film.

Mind games help quell the fear part. Not wishing to fall off a cliff, I tell myself I am on a mountaintop under the sea. Now falling just means diving deeper into the abyss. Or, when there is trepidation in the presence of beauty I tell myself not to worry, fingers donâ€™t tremble at a sixtieth of a second.

Touch, bend, reach, suspend, descend, circle, submerge, climb, grab, and hold: these are the verbs of my photographic life. They vary as much as time and place varies. For forty years now, nothing has changed; destiny and desire hang in the balance while I wait for the shutter.

It is all about chance discoveries, handshakes with good fortune, and that unquenchable wish to express the pleasure of being alive in the natural world as it was meant to exist. — Arno Rafael Minkkinen

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George Tice - Common Mementos

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Volume 3 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Previously unpublished photographs from Tice's urban landscapes series. They were taken in the 1990s, a period when Tice was especially prolific.

Common Mementos is akin to a short story, a short film, an essay. It is my attempt to define and interpret the New Jersey with which I was familiar. I think of it as a journey in time as well as place. — George Tice

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Arthur Tress - Planets

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Volume 7 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Surrealism in a new vein.

I ask you to tour with me on a globally positioned satellite, making an interstellar journey across vast galaxies through the floating camera's telescopic porthole, spanning light years, orbiting the vast reaches of the cosmos . . . — Arthur Tress

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Hans Bol - The Studios of Pietrasanta

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Volume 11 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Photographs from an established Dutch photographer who is little known in the United States.

. . . I was witnessing a timeless environment. I could sense that things were the way they had been for ages. — Hans Bol

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Keith Carter - Opera Nuda

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Volume 4 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Nudes, a heretofore unknown aspect of Keith Carter's work.

Photography always seemed to me a kind of benign magic. Light, precious metals, mysterious chemistry . . . wield the camera like a magic wand, murmur a few hopeful words . . . and on a good day you can conjure up proof of a dream. — Keith Carter

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Marilyn Bridges - Flights Through Time

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Volume 8 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

Unknown work from a master of aerial photography.

. . . ancient monuments and abandoned ruins whose builders once yearned to conquer eternity. . . . ephemeral forms so delicate as to last only a moment.
Marilyn Bridges

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Robert Adams - Close at Hand

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Volume 12 in the Lodima Press Portfolio Book Series

A previously unknown aspect of Adams' life and work.

. . . for over forty years I have been making things in the shop to amuse Kerstin and to remind us both of what sweetens life. — Robert Adams

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About Lodima Press

Founded by Michael A. Smith to self-publish his first book, Landscapes 1975–1979, which was awarded Le Grand Prix du Livre (Best Photography Book of the Year) at the Rencontres de la Photographie (International Festival of Photography), Arles, France, in 1981. In the 38 years since, and in partnership with photographer Paula Chamlee, Lodima Press has come to be known for its unwavering dedication to reproductions of the highest quality (printing most books in 600-line screen quadtone), and publishing books of exquisite beauty by a number of leading and emerging photographers. We also provide consulting services for photographers seeking guidance in getting their work ready to submit for publication or to self-publish.

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