TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campbell,Joyce
AU  - Laird,Tessa
AU  - Jack,Fiona
ED  - G727 (Gallery)
TI  - LA botanical
U1  - 779.092 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - [Los Angeles, Ca.
PB  - G727
KW  - Art, New Zealand
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Women artists
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Photography of plants
KW  - Plants
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Pictorial works
N1  - Title from cover; Essay by Tessa Laird ; book design Fiona Jack
N2  - 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
ER  -