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New Finding Aid | Dan Powell Photographs

Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce a newly updated finding aid for the Dan Powell photograph collection (PH297) now published on Archives West. This collection consists of constructed imagery and large format photographic prints taken by Powell between 1978 and 2012. Many of his works are also available to view online in the Dan Powell digital collection in Oregon Digital.

Dan Powell, “North of Alvord Desert,” 1989. PH297 Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, OR.

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Paint and pages converge: The A&AA artists’ books collection

“Ste. Ostrich in Manhattan : the visitations of a martyr” by Julie Chen, Lois Morrison and Elizabeth McDevitt.

The past meets the present in our Friday File series, where we delve through artifacts housed at the UO Libraries and let them talk.

 

Art doesn’t have to be two-dimensional, and a book doesn’t have to have pages.

That’s the guiding principle behind the artists’ books collection in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at University of Oregon. The A&AA library has been displaying some of the artist’s books all term; this is their last week in the library exhibition.

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