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LA botanical / Joyce Campbell.

By:

Campbell, Joyce [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [Los Angeles, Ca. : G727, 2007Description: 83 pages : illustrations ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Other title:

Los Angeles botanical

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

779.092 22

Summary: LA Botanical is an ongoing project documenting each plant that grows in Los Angeles for which there is a documented use - be it food, medicine, weapon, abortive, analgesic, fuel, stimulant, building material, deadly toxin or mind altering entheogen. The plants are documented as wet-plate Ambrotypes, an anachronistic photographic form ubiquitous in the 1850's-1890s, the period during in which Los Angeles grew from a dusty town of 1400 inhabitants to a major metropolitan center. The project is an attempt to reconcile Campbell's own rural background with her life here in Los Angeles, one of the most sprawling and unsustainable metropolises on earth.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	779.092 CAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A440877B

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Essay by Tessa Laird ; book design Fiona Jack.

LA Botanical is an ongoing project documenting each plant that grows in Los Angeles for which there is a documented use - be it food, medicine, weapon, abortive, analgesic, fuel, stimulant, building material, deadly toxin or mind altering entheogen. The plants are documented as wet-plate Ambrotypes, an anachronistic photographic form ubiquitous in the 1850's-1890s, the period during in which Los Angeles grew from a dusty town of 1400 inhabitants to a major metropolitan center. The project is an attempt to reconcile Campbell's own rural background with her life here in Los Angeles, one of the most sprawling and unsustainable metropolises on earth.

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition LA botanical presented by G727, May18th-June 23rd 2007"--P. 1.

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