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9780826338471 Academic Inspection Copy

Seema's Show

A Life on the Left
  • ISBN-13: 9780826338471
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
  • By Sara Halprin PhD
  • Price: AUD $34.99
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  • Local release date: 30/10/2005
  • Format: Paperback 246 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Individual photographers [AJB]
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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.
Sara Halprin is a writer, therapist, and teacher who lives in Portland, Oregon. Marge Frantz taught history for many years at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Introduction; 1905-1929: From Chernigov to California; 1929-38: Los Angeles, Tahiti, Los Angeles; 1938-41: Yosemite; 1940-84: Jack; 1985-2000: A New Life; Index.
." . a biography that is able to laud its subject while being honest about her faults. . Halprin's book about [Seema] is brisk, detailed and easy to read." ""Seema's Show: A Life on the Left" is a scholarly responsible and emotionally sensitive telling of another's life. It adds depth to our understanding of a unique American subculture. "Seema's Show" opens a window for us on the intimate life of another soul, as viewed by a writer whose motivation seems to be profound respect and deep affection for her subject." "Though there is plenty to admire in Weatherwax's story, it is really Halprin's rendering of her subject that gives the book its charm. Halprin's narration vividly replays these past events, focusing on the details and idiosyncrasies in order to give the story a living texture."
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