Susan Seubert (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The book didn't quite fit on my scanner, but you get the idea. It's in beautiful shape. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Susan Seubert (photos) (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good +. Signed Photobook SIGNED. Oblong 4to, 24 pp, VG+ in moderately soiled boards with inset cover photograph. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of tintypes. Boldy inscribed by Susan Seubert on the title page in the year of publication.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. Slim volume, 24 pages 30 illustrations in color. Illustrated boards. Oblong.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Near Fine copy showing slight signs of handling. Full cloth binding with photo title pastedown on front. 24pp. Portland photographer Susan Seubert is a master with the antiquated techniques of silver gelatin, platinum, tintype and wet plate collodion. Size: Oblong 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. 8.31 X 0.77 X 9.76 inches; 144 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. Between 1963 and 1970, Lawrence Halprin and Associates realized a quartet of public plazas in Portland, Oregon, that redefined the city and set a bold new precedent for urban landscape architecture. Dubbed the Portland Open Space Sequence and composed of the Lovejoy Fountain, Pettygrove Park, and Forecourt Fountain (later renamed Ira Keller Fountain), plus the lesser known Source Fountain, the plazas were a dynamic collage of striking concrete forms, gushing water, and alpine flora that, in their seamless mix of nature and theater, created a playful metaphorical watershed coursing through the central city. Where the Revolution Began is the story of how these plazas came to be. Born of the creative experimentation and collaboration between Halprin and his wife, pioneering choreographer/ dancer Anna Halprin, the sequence came to life in the unlikely setting of the city's first scrape-and-rebuild urban renewal project. But Halprin defied the conventions of both American urban renewal and midcentury modernism, designing the kind of inviting, exuberant public space not seen seen since Renaissance Rome's Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navonna. For Halprin, the plazas became the first step in a career-long exploration of sequential works of landscape design, from the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem to the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. For Portland, Halprin's work marked the beginning of a tradition of remaking the city around interactive public spaces such as the famed Pioneer Courthouse Square. And for landscape architecture, the plazas offer some of the earliest precedents for the ecologically and socially responsive urbanism ascendant today.…

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. Oblong 4to, black cloth. FINE in original mylar bag. 'With this body of work, I am interested in investigating patterns in nature as well the use of architecture in terms of instinct. A study of a collection of wild bird asts, 'Nest' is a group of twenty five full plate ambrotypes. The processing tifacts from the wet plate collodion process create emotional characteristics. Swirling lines and apparent surface depth further emphasizes the individuality of each structure. That the images themselves are suspended on a glass surface underscores the fragility of each form.' (Seubert's preface.).…