[Libs-Or] June 16: OSU Library lecture on human/tree portraiture in historical Pacific NW photographs

Fri Jun 3 12:05:36 PDT 2016

Please join us in Corvallis for a wonderful talk by artist and independent scholar Melody Owen. The event is Thursday June 16th at 2:00 PM Willamette West in the Valley Library on the Oregon State University campus.

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Her talk "Poetic dendrochronology and human/tree portraiture in historical photographs from the Pacific Northwest" will be an exploration of human/tree portraiture in early 20th century photography culled from the Gerald W. Williams Collection. This genre includes photographs usually taken to emphasize the tree’s grand majesty, beauty, strangeness and/or size compared to the relative smallness of a person, as well as those that show off the human’s bravado and skills in cutting them down.

The title is in reference to the rings inside a tree’s trunk that indicate its age and also to the type of picture in which people hold hands and form a ring around a tree, sometimes to show its size and sometimes to protect it.
Learn more about the SCARC Resident Scholar Program at http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/residentscholar.html

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