EVA KOLEVA TIMOTHY: Lost In Learning

Book Cover with The Journal c. 1800's
Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

Prism Light
Title Page from Opicks, Sir Isaac Newton, 1704
Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

Sundial

Universal Horizontal Sundial, Johannes Kooch, Stockholm, Sweden c. 1650-1679. Courtesy of the History of Science Department, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

The Man Behind The Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci. Louve, Paris, France 1503-1506.
Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

Galileo's Compass

Galileo's Geometrical and Military Compass

Made for presentation to the Duke of Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni, Padua, Italy, 1604. Courtesy of the History of Science Department, Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University. Photograph (c) Eva Koleva Timothy/All Rights Reserved

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"For with every bit of light we receive and every mystery we uncover, we have done little more than open new paths to even greater vistas and even deeper seas"–Lost In Learning

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Eva Koleva Timothy is a Media/Communications graduate from the University of Utah and a graduate of the Oxford School of Photography holding a Licentiate Certification from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. She was recently chosen as a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for her photograph, The Man Behind The Mona Lisa.

As Book Design Editor for Eva's Monograph, Lost In Learning (Fall 2010, Athenaeum), I want to introduce you to her beautiful photographs, some of which incorporate the use of Sfumato, a technique originated by Da Vinci centuries ago. "My intent in this project has been to create a portrait of an age where exploration was life's supreme adventure." For the front cover of the book, Eva chose her photograph, The Journal c. 1800's. Catherine Petruccione posted a Book Review of Lost in Learning on her blog Old Scrolls.

LOST IN LEARNING: The Art Of Discovery

Monograph September 1, 2010 Athenaeum Publishing

UPDATE: JULY 2010

Lost in Learning was voted People's Choice 1st Place Category Winner for Professional Books as well as sub-category 1st place winner for Fine Art Books in the International PX3 Competition in Paris.

BLURB BOOK OF THE WEEK: My Brother's War

Preview Jessica Hine's Book My Brother's War

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

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BLURB BOOK OF THE WEEK!

JESSICA HINES: My Brother's War

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

The Reflection: "In September of 2009, I visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC for the first time...What are missing from the wall are the names of those who died war-related deaths: from suicide, from injuries, and from exposure to harmful chemical substances." Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

The Reunion: “Brothers Forever” was a phrase often heard mentioned and saw written in their photo albums commemorating time together in the war." Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

Jessica Hines My Brother's War

The Remembrance: The toys, reminiscent of the games we played as children such as “cowboys and Indians”, embodied the notion of the cultural ideal role model for us. This “hero/tough-guy” role model was encouraged. Photograph (c) Jessica Hines /All Rights Reserved

The box stood packed away high on a closet shelf for over twenty-five years. Packed by my mother, it contained the letters, photographs, medals, and important papers that had once belonged to my deceased brother, Gary. It was serendipitous that I came to open the box and read the letters. Not having read them since I was a child, the time period was brought back to life for me. It was as if I could hear my brother speaking – it was as if he were still alive and I was listening to him talk about his life.

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Artist and storyteller Jessica Hines, uses the camera’s inherent quality as a recording device to explore illusion and to suggest truths that underlie the visible world. At the core of Hines’ work lies an inquisitive nature inspired by personal memory, experience and the unconscious mind. Hines began to cultivate her creative disposition early in life and her love of the arts led her to attend Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Continuing to pursue her interests, she studied photography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree. (from My Brother's War)

Jessica approached me to design a portfolio to best showcase her Photo Essay, My Brother's War. This was to be sort of a book 'dummy' to show potential publishers her intention behind her project in which she attempts to gain a better understanding of what happened to her brother, Gary, when he was a soldier in the Viet Nam War. Drafted, he served two years and returned home a victim of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Ten years later, he took his own life.

I was honored to be asked to work on this beautiful and moving project. I was impressed with the amount of research Jessica put into locating and speaking with her brother's wartime friends and attending the reunion of her brother's units in Viet Nam: The 178th ASHC, The Boxcars and the 132nd ASHC, Hercules, as well as traveling to Viet Nam to retrace her brother’s “footsteps”. Hines photographed her brother's letters, written home during his service in Viet Nam, which run throughout the seven chapters. I particularly wanted my cover design to reflect the emotion I felt when first imagining Gary's Army dog tags, the absence of the person.

Jessica won a multitude of photography awards this past year, including the International Photography Awards: three Honorable Mention awards for Editorial: War/Conflict, Fine Art, and Deeper Perspective, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris: 1st Place Fine Art and PX3 Book Award in People’s Choice Award, Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2009: Honorable Mention, The Mind’s Eye 2009 at The Center For Fine Art Photography: Director’s Award. Her work was selected by the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor, Stella Kramer, and published in Portfolio Showcase, Volume 3, 2009. Her portfolio was chosen as one of Photolucida’s 2008 Critical Mass Top 50 and she is a finalist for The Aftermath Project Grant in 2010, among others. Jessica's work has been selected for Houston's upcoming FotoFest 2010 Portfolio Review in March and her work continues to be seen in The New Yorker magazine.

View Jessica Hines "My Brother's War"
LENSCULTURE Weblog

May 2010 Update: Congratulations! Jessica Hines is a winner in the PDN Photo Annual. One of her images from "My Brother's War" is in PDN's May issue!

FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: Vintage Interview

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An Interview With Francesco Clemente. Front Cover Photograph (c) Richard Avedon /All Rights Reserved. "She and She" Back Cover Painting (c) Francesco Clemente /All Rights Reserved.

Sky and Water, Watercolour on paper

Painting by Francesco Clemente /All Rights Reserved

The following quotes by artist Francesco Clemente were excerpted from An Interview With Francesco Clemente by Rainer Crone and Georgia Marsh, published under the imprint "Elizabeth Avedon Editions | Vintage Contemporary Artists | Random House:" (Here)

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"...about the publication of your book of poems, Castelli di Sabbia. (Naples: L’Arte Tipografica, 1964) "I had been reciting it to my mother since I was five or six, and it was published against my better judgment. It was enormously embarrassing, and it made me into a painter, actually, because I decided that to be a poet was too embarrassing; it was too revealing, and I wanted something more obscure to deal with. I thought of painting that way. That was when I was eleven or twelve years old."

"Paintings are simple things. They are important not so much for what is in them as for what is not there. When we talk of the Renaissance we talk of something fragile; the surprise is that at a certain point, after a thousand years of Christianity, Renaissance artists looked at their bodies again, and looked at their faces, and looked at the world as a sensual place. This feeling of surprise happens again in Tiepolo's skies, and even down to de Chirico's earliest painting. If we talk of Piero della Francesca, what comes to mind is the light. There are two lineages of light in painting. One is a secular light: from Caravaggio to de Kooning. The light is outside; it comes down on things, and makes them what they are. But if we talk of Piero, or talk of Roman paintings, or of the Pompeian paintings, we talk of a light that comes from within and that has nothing to do with the history of man. It is a light that is before the history of man. Giotto is unique because you don't know exactly which way the light goes: his is already a completely secular point of view, but still the light is treated as an inner flow. There is really no one else like him; that degree of mystery is nowhere else. We have to talk in terms of light, because if we talk in terms of formalities, what can we get out of it?"

"It could be a step forward to realize that the rational picture of the world is also an imagination; it has the same reality as a myth. It is the product of the mind; it is not more substantial than the mind. When we talk about mythology we are talking about questions of history, of rational thought and rationalized memory of our past. History is the most tragic product of the rational mind–a picture from which there is no way to escape. The picture of the world that history gives us is the picture of a dead person who looks over his own life. It is as if we are all dead, and we are looking at the world in a glass case. How can we get away from this? I have no answer for it."

An Interview With Francesco Clemente
by Rainer Crone and Georgia Marsh
Elizabeth Avedon Editions
Vintage Contemporary Artists/Random House

PAINTINGS & BIO | VIDEO I & VIDEO II

AN OPEN HEART: Practicing Compassion In Everyday Life + Photographs

Front Cover Photograph: Clive Arrowsmith
Back Cover Photograph: Richard Gere (Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery)
Jacket and Book Design: Elizabeth Avedon

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Clive Arrowsmith's b&w photograph I used for the book's cover
Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith/All Rights Reserved

"IT IS MY hope that the reader of this small book will take away a basic understanding of Buddhism and some of the key methods by which Buddhist practitioners have cultivated compassion and wisdom in their lives."–The Dalai Lama

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AN OPEN HEART: PRACTICING COMPASSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE By His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland. Afterword by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Richard Gere. (Amazon)

Three Trees, Rato Dratsang Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, India
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland/All Rights Reserved

THE MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL WORLD: The View From Hepo Ri,
Where Guru Rinpoche Defeated All The Demons of Tibet,
Samye Monastery, Tibet. Photograph (c) WA /All Rights Reserved

AN OPEN HEART: PRACTICING COMPASSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland
Afterword by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Richard Gere
Cover Photograph by Clive Arrowsmith
Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon
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