Born Free, Born Equal (First Edition)
Joseph Maida & Ansel Easton Adams
Sold by Armadillo Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 21 April 1998
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Add to basketSold by Armadillo Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 21 April 1998
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketA truly lovely copy! Mint in decorative hardcover -- crisp, bright, tight -- with no markings or defects of any kind. Apparent first edition. "The fifth anniversary edition of Joseph Maida's ongoing collaboration with the photos from Ansel Adams's archive of photographs of the Japanese-American concretation at Manzanar, California during World War II." (184 pages.) Suitable condition for adding to a library collection. Ships from NC. All hardbacks are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with protective wrapping, and shipped promptly with tracking.
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Joseph Maida’s new photographic monograph BORN FREE, BORN EQUAL raises vital questions about democracy, justice, memory, and representation in the United States today.
It was not until the death of his beloved Aunt Katherine Takeshita, a nisei Japanese American from Hawaiʻi, that Maida learned the details of the family’s incarceration during World War II. This discovery prompted Maida to revisit Ansel Adams’s 1943 Manzanar archive in 2017 in the wake of President Trump’s Executive Order 13769. Through obscuring specific faces, names, ethnicities, and dates in Adams’s Manzanar photographs and documents, which were once controversial and are now publicly accessible through the Library of Congress, Maida’s 2018 book, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal _______-Americans, draws parallels between Ansel Adams’s empathetic images of citizens incarcerated based solely on ethnic origin and the resurgence of legislation targeting women, religious minorities, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
Born Free, Born Equal contains a stunning reproduction of Maida’s 2018 book as well as a record of Maida’s 2020 project, Printed Media x Printed Justice: Exhibition-in-a-Box, in which Maida mailed political posters to influential art institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, when the urgency of the imminent 2020 Presidential election and the limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic made post the most effective way to get the the project in curators’ hands. Maida’s guerilla campaign focused specifically on museums that have a vested interest in Adams’s work, asking them to consider their responsibility engaging their own histories in relatonship to the present day. Maida’s posters, which constellate key civil-liberty documents from 1790 through 2018 from the 3 branches of U.S. government with pages from his 2018 book, are now also housed at these museums. Through Maida’s act of mailing his posters and his accompanying call to action, he has revisited and reconsidered history on the personal, institutional, and governmental levels, in tandem with some of today’s most visible cultural institutions.
Born Free, Born Equal illuminates the complexities of representation that both the medium of photography and our system of democracy embody. If the twentieth century asked if the personal is political, Maida now asks himself — and us — to consider if the political is ever divisible from the personal given its impact on our individual identities and our families’ stories, including those that have been tucked away, redacted, or erased.
Joseph Maida is an artist, writer, and educator based in New York City. Having studied under Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Gregory Crewdson, Catherine Opie and Thomas Struth, Maida’s perspective uniquely navigates the intersections between photographic ideologies of the American Northeast (Walker Evans), West Coast Conceptualism, and the Düsseldorf School. Maida has taught at Yale University, Parsons the New School, SUNY Purchase, and is on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), where he is Chair of the BFA Photography and Video department. Maida earned his BA summa cum laude from Columbia University in architecture and art history and his MFA in photography from Yale.
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist. Adams began to photograph professionally in 1930, and in 1932 was a founding member of the f/64 group in San Francisco, California. In 1940 he created the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, along with Beaumont Newhall and David McAlpin. From 1942 to 1944 Adams acted as the photographic adviser to the United States Army and photographed at the Manzanar Relocation Center. In1944, his work from this project was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and published in the book, Born Free and Equal. In 1962 Adams moved to Carmel, California where he founded the Friends of Photography in 1967. He continued to document the landscape of the American West.
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