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| Photo Album Offers Candid Oregon Photos
By Fred Delkin A truly stunning collection of real life and scenery across Oregon has just hit my desk. Oregon 24/7 is one of 50 volumes, one for each of these United States, and presents 144 pages of photographs submitted by both professional and amateur lens folk and appearing in print for the first time. DK Publishing of New York is the producer of this series. Co-director David Cohen reports that "we posed a series of questions to Americans in every state: tell us in pictures who you are, what you care about, who you love, where you work, and what you do every day"...the response comprised over one million photos from across the nation. Cohen avers that "these books portray a more accurate and more human portrait of American life than we are used to seeing on the evening news"...to which we offer no argument as it relates to the Oregon collection. Some of our favorites...three tiny Warm Springs tribal infants swaddled in colorful handmade cradleboards...a tug pushing a grain-laden barge into a Columbia river sunset...the director of the Wildlife Rehab Center of the North Coast cradling an injured brown pelican named Netarts...three Harney county buckaroos relaxing against a corral fence in their working clothes...distiller Steve McCarthy proudly showing a bottle of his pear brandy while standing in his family's Hood River valley orchard...climber Dan Howitt with his yellow Labrador dog atop Mt. Hood. Amusing, sometimes surprising, often intimate photos chronicle life in every corner of Oregon. Parents, children, lovers, pets, major and minor events are included. This truly is "life behind the scenes" depicted candidly. Each volume sells for $24.95 as an oversized (10 3/8" x 13") hardcover. Send in a reasonable $7.95 + $2.95 for shipping and you can receive a custom cover from a submitted photo of your choice. Visit www.america24-7.com for project background © 2005 Oregon Magazine |