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Closely Observed

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Closely observed explores the infinite variety and beauty of the botanical world. Andrea Baldeck sequences photographs in sumptuous black and white to beguile the viewer with variations on the theme of leaf and flower, fruit and seed. The aesthetic appeal of a mute yet deeply expressive world imbues the 178 tritone plates. The book presents a garden of the imagination that invites the eye to linger, marvel, and enjoy.

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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9781931707886

Venice, a Personal View

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Venice, a Personal View

By: Andrea Baldeck

Poised in delicate, often hazardous balance with the liquid natural world the fabric of the man-made city rises out of the water and is reflected in it. The earth of Venice, a tissue of alluvial silt, is upheld and given form by a vast subterranean endoskeleton of wooden pilings supporting buildings of splendor with their feet in the mud. The air of Venice carries both heat and swells from North Africa's deserts and envelops life like liquid gauze. And fire, the most volatile of the four elements, has both destroyed and redrawn swaths of the city and fed the industry and commerce of a trading nation.

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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193170757X

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9781931707572

Himalaya

Land of the Snow Lion

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Himalaya

Land of the Snow Lion

By: Andrea Baldeck

The Himalaya, Asia's jagged backbone, lured photographer Andrea Baldeck on four journeys covering thousands of miles from northern India to western China, the distillation of which is Himalaya: Land of the Snow Lion. This volume opens a window onto an ancient enduring culture, bound by shared ethnicity and religion and challenged by daunting geography. Portraits, landscapes, architecture, and still-life images convey the texture and rhythm of this mountain life, which is ever more threatened by the forces of geopolitics, migration, and modernization. In a series of succinct essays accompanying the images, the artist invites the viewer to imagine aspects of life and travel in a region where a remote, starkly beautiful environment test and tempers all who call it home.

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254

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1934536091

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9781934536094

Closely Observed

By: Andrea Baldeck

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The Heart of Haiti

By: Andrea Baldeck

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The Heart of Haiti

By: Andrea Baldeck

More than two centuries since enslaved laborers of West African descent evicted French colonials from Haiti's troubled republic, the second-oldest in the western hemisphere, the lot of rural Haitians has changed little. Life is tied to the exhausted land, worked with hoe to the cycle of seasons. One's world is that which can be taken in from the top of the highest mountain. The Artibonite Valley is one such microcosm, in the geographic heart of Haiti, where a river's liquid artery sustains 200,000 inhabitants on subsistence farms. Materially poor but rich in culture, the Haitians live with dignity in the face of deprivation, find solace in a spiritual synthesis of voudoun and Christianity, and season their talk with trenchant proverbs." "Andrea Baldeck came to know this world as a volunteer physician on several trips to the valley's Hopital Albert Schweitner during the 1980s, returning as a photographer in the mid-90s with the opportunity to see the valley and interact with its people in a new and more extensive way. In permitting their images to be taken they were giving much, and in their faces they revealed much - hope, resignation, forbearance, pride, strength, and love." --Book Jacket.

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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1931707855

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Talismanic

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Talismanic

By: Andrea Baldeck

The photographs in this book spring from a respect for the logic and clarity of science and the order and variety of the natural world and from the photographer's fascination with the array of line, form, and pattern that occurs in our daily lives. Talismans are endowed with magic virtue, charms diverse in their forms, holding the powers of healing or good fortune or potent magic, tinged always with a hint of the occult, the mysterious. Drawn from the everyday world, changed through the alchemy of photography and the eye of the artist, these images remind us that sometimes the quotidian is the strangest of all.

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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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Venice, a Personal View

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Heterogeneous Catalysis

A Versatile Tool for the Synthesis of Bioactive Heterocycles

By: K.L. Ameta, Ph.D.,Andrea Penoni

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Heterogeneous Catalysis

A Versatile Tool for the Synthesis of Bioactive Heterocycles

By: K.L. Ameta, Ph.D.,Andrea Penoni

For more than a century, bioactive heterocycles have formed one of the largest areas of research in organic chemistry. They are important from a biological and industrial point of view as well as to the understanding of life processes and efforts to improve the quality of life. Heterogeneous Catalysis: A Versatile Tool for the Synthesis of Bioactiv

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CRC Press

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1466594837

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9781466594838

The Heart of Haiti

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Bones Books and Bell Jars

Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection

By: Andrea Baldeck

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Bones Books and Bell Jars

Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection

By: Andrea Baldeck

New Book Interprets 'Cabinet of Wonders' from 19th Century Medical MuseumBones Books & Bell Jars, a new photography book and exhibition by fine art photographer Andrea Baldeck, offers a contemporary fusion of art and medicine, recalling an era when artists and physicians collaborated to educate aspiring medical students and share information with other medical practitioners. Andrea Baldeck was given free rein to mine Philadelphia's Mutter Museum's vast collection of pathological specimens, anatomical models, surgical instruments, illustrated textbooks and other 19th century artifacts, to create her 'cabinet of wonders' inspired still life photographs.Baldeck wends her way with a sense of wonderment through the off-limits hallways and cabinets closed to the public. She shares her own aesthetic pleasure from a uniquely informed perspective: two decades earlier she left the operating room and a career as an internist and anesthesiologist, to enter the darkroom as a photographer."Behind the scenes... in locked rooms ranging from basement to attic, dwell a trove of artifacts, specimens and texts," writes Baldeck in the Introduction. "To gain access to these is a singular privilege, a journey through time and across a continuum of the healing arts... What follows is an experiential account of... keeping company with the past... to produce still life photographs that reflect on the roles of art and science in documenting the history of medicine."Baldeck conjures up a past describing tools found in the museum's Mobile Storage room: "Some speak of a time before the germ theory of disease and asepsis, when elegant tools might be casually wiped clean and replaced in velvet-lined boxes, awaiting use on the next patient, like the field kit of a Civil War surgeon..." Moving on to the Bone Room, she contemplates the wax models and skeletons, and the flesh-and-blood patients they represent: "The strange juxtaposition of fleshless bone and boneless flesh in this sequestered space speaks wordlessly, yet compellingly, of affliction and mortality." Baldeck's lyrical black-and-white photographs are meant to engage the eye, stimulate the imagination and provoke thoughts and questions. A common denominator pervades then and now the desire to "advance the science of medicine and lessen human misery.

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098494060X

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Closely Observed

Closely Observed

Venice, a Personal View

Venice, a Personal View

Himalaya

Himalaya

Closely Observed

Closely Observed

The Heart of Haiti

The Heart of Haiti

Talismanic

Talismanic

Venice, a Personal View

Venice, a Personal View

Heterogeneous Catalysis

Heterogeneous Catalysis

The Heart of Haiti

The Heart of Haiti

Bones Books and Bell Jars

Bones Books and Bell Jars

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