Vulcan's Craft: The Intimacy of Loss
The Berkeley-Oakland Hills Firestorm 25 Years Later
by Raphael Shevelev
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About the Book
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 84 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9781367468146
- Publish Date: Jul 12, 2016
- Language English
- Keywords Mills College Art Museum, Chief Photographer, Fire Art Project, reconstruction, burn area, burn, survivor, desolation, chimneys, disaster, beauty, pathos, metaphor, aftermath, intimacy, monochrome film, wreckage, camera, photographer, photography, rubble, ruins, Claremont Hotel, ash, flames, firemen, drought, renewal, destruction, firefighting, firefighters, Vulcan, Vulcan’s Craft, loss, California fire, Berkeley Oakland Hills Fire, Oakland Hills Fire, Berkeley Hills Fire, Oakland Hills, Berkeley hills, Raphael Shevelev, Shevelev, firestorm, fires, fire
About the Creator
Raphael Shevelev, former University of California political scientist, was born and educated in South Africa. At age fifty he became a fulltime professional writer and photographer. A popular lecturer, he has written many articles on photography and the creative process. He is the author of the biographical essay in Wynn Bullock: The Enchanted Landscape, Photographs 1940-1975 (Aperture, 1993) and Liberating the Ghosts: Photographs and Text from the March of the Living (LensWork 1996), which won awards from the American Library Association and the New York Public Library. His work is included in the permanent collections of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Magnes Collection at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.