{"id":195,"date":"2011-06-23T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-06-23T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T21:29:43","slug":"unique-photography-book-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/2011\/06\/23\/unique-photography-book-acquired\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique photography book acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2011\/06\/dupont-000001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-198\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2011\/06\/dupont-000001-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2011\/06\/dupont-000001-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2011\/06\/dupont-000001-827x1024.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>The Fine Arts Library recently acquired a limited edition publication by renowned Australian photojournalist Stephen Dupont.\u00a0 Entitled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=%7Clibrary\/m\/aleph%7C012755301\">Axe Me Biggie<\/a><\/span>, a rendering of the Dari expression for \u201ctake my picture\u201d, it includes ninety black and white Polaroid portrait photographs of Afghanis taken near the central bus station in Kabul, on one day in 2006.\u00a0 These were selected from over 665 images in total; as part of the project each print was presented to the sitter and the negatives retained to make further reproductions.\u00a0 Although several of these images have been exhibited and published before, this book presents the largest survey available to date.\u00a0\u00a0 This handmade book features images printed digitally on heavy photographic paper.<\/p>\n<p>Dupont has been photographing in Afghanistan since 1993 and the portrait project compliments his more journalistic work in the area.\u00a0\u00a0 He has photographed in many war-torn parts of the world to date.\u00a0 Dupont was the Peabody Museum\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabody.harvard.edu\/node\/576\">Gardner fellow<\/a> in 2010 and is currently photographing in Papua New Guinea for that project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fine Arts Library recently acquired a limited edition publication by renowned Australian photojournalist Stephen Dupont.\u00a0 Entitled Axe Me Biggie, a rendering of the Dari expression for \u201ctake my picture\u201d, it includes ninety black and white Polaroid portrait photographs of Afghanis taken near the central bus station in Kabul, on one day in 2006.\u00a0 These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18605,14654],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-books","category-photographs","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gvrn-39","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}