Twentysix gasoline stations

1 volume, 45 pages. First edition, 1963, 400 numbered copies; Second edition, 1967, 500 unnumbered copies; Third edition, 1969, 3000 unnumbered copies; The Cunningham Press, Alhambra, California. --Title-page verso.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1178/thumbnail.jp

Every building on the sunset strip

1 volume unpaged.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbooks/1177/thumbnail.jp

Shot at Dawn: Late Photography and the Anti-War Memorial

The military executions of World War One are the subject of Chloe Dewe Mathews’s 2014 photographic series Shot at Dawn. These events—in which hundreds of soldiers were court-martialled and executed for cowardice and desertion—remain controversial, without consensus or established collective narrative. This article charts historic negotiations with the subject but also considers more recent efforts to integrate these proceedings within memorial practice. World War One remembrance activities, whilst diverse, have often emphasised sacrifice, heroism and community. Correspondingly, participation and engagement were core values in the major British World War One centenary arts project, titled 14-18 NOW, from which Shot at Dawn was commissioned. Chloe Dewe Mathews’s contribution to the programme, however, presents a photographic aesthetic of resistance to the principles of inclusivity and remembrance elsewhere embraced by the project. As such, the work challenges the consensual politics of commemoration and—through the practices of late photography, land art and performance pilgrimage— substitutes trauma and forgetfulness for reconciliation and memory

Twentysix Gasoline Stations

Originally printed in 1962 although front pages states 1962. Printed again in 1967 (second edition) and 1969 (third edition). Contains 26 images of black and white photographs of petrol/gas stations from the southern California area. 48 pages, dedicated to Patty Calahan. Cunningham Press, Alhambra CA. 3,000 copies. Copyright protections prevent the publishing of additional images. For more information about this book, please contact UND Art Collections. James Smith Pierce Collection.https://commons.und.edu/jsp-artistbooks/1001/thumbnail.jp

Every Building on the Sunset Strip

First edition, self-published by the artist in 1966. 1000 copies made. Originally sold for $12. Silver outer sleeve, artist book contains an accordion fold-out collection of black and white images of the buildings on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip. Copyright protections apply. Please contact UND Art Collections for more information about the work. James Smith Pierce Collectionhttps://commons.und.edu/jsp-artistbooks/1008/thumbnail.jp

Colored People

Artist book, 64 pages including a collection of 15 color photographs of various California vegetation. Self-published, 4056 copies printed of first edition. James Smith Pierce Collection For more information about this book, please contact UND Art Collections.https://commons.und.edu/jsp-artistbooks/1003/thumbnail.jp

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