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" Seema's show : "
Sara Halprin ; foreword by Marge Frantz
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BL
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587492
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b416711
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| Main Entry
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Halprin, Sara
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| Title & Author
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Seema's show : : a life on the left /\ Sara Halprin ; foreword by Marge Frantz
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| Publication Statement
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Albuquerque :: University of New Mexico Press,, 2005
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| Series Statement
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CounterCulture series
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xii, 246 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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082633847X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-241) and index
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| Contents
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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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"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
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Weatherwax, Seema,1905-2006
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Women political activists-- United States, Biography
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Women photographers-- United States, Biography
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Russian Americans, Biography
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Counterculture-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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979.4/0049171/0092B
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CT275.W3494H35 2005
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