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    Allegiance: Postcards from America

    Allegiance celebrates the American Flag—a living symbol of freedom, opportunity, and equality. Unfortunately, it has also become […]

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    Exquisite Warriors – 2nd Edition

    Exquisite Warriors: The NEW second, soft-cover edition featuring 26 Women Facing Fighting Fate, Facing Facts, Conquering Fear […]

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    The Enchanting Desert

    The Enchanting Desert is a kaleidoscope book celebrating our recent relocation to the Sonoran Desert in Tucson […]

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    Exquisite Warriors

    Exquisite Warriors: The SOLD OUT(!) first edition artist book raised $12,000 for three non-profits working with women with PD […]

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    Thank You Books

    Thank You Books are a series of free “One Sheet Wonder” books. All are free, open-edition books that you can download, print […]

  • Sentinels of the Desert by Laura Russell
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    Sentinels of the Desert

    Saguaro cactus, majestic symbol of the Sonoran Desert, are endangered by climate change, drought and competing invasive plant species […]

  • Take Me, I'm Yours by Laura Russell
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    Take Me, I’m Yours

    In a bit of whimsy, image and text play off each other in irreverent pairings of singles pick-up lines with intimate portraits of abandoned furniture […]

  • McKenzie Pass, Oregon by Laura Russell
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    McKenzie Pass, Oregon

    Book Three of my Show & Tell Chapbook Series is a love story about an open road, a bicycle, a landscape and a man […]

  • Wall Dogs Chapbook by Laura Russell
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    Wall Dogs Chapbook

    Book two of my Show & Tell Chapbook Series features my favorite vintage brick wall ghost sign and the Wall Dogs who painted them. […]

  • And your Lord inspired the Bee by Laura Russell
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    And your Lord inspired the Bee

    Book One of my Show & Tell Chapbook Series was created for the Shadow and Light photography project curated by Beau Beausoleil […]

  • Bold Heart by Laura Russell
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    Bold Heart

    Bold Heart is the second in a series of books about Diana, the Goddess of Hunting—or more precisely, the Modern Day Diana. […]

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    Magnificent Beast

    Magnificent Beast, which pairs photographs of modern day women deer hunters with excerpts from Ted Hughes’ translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses story of Diana and Actaeon […]

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    Pages Reign

    The bombing of the booksellers on Al Mutanabbi Street in Iraq really touched my soul. As a book seller and book maker I had a hard time reconciling such an atrocious event […]

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    Anything Helps

    Anything Helps is a limited edition artist book surveying the cardboard signs used by panhandlers and homeless people. We have all seen these folks people on street corners […]

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    Hit The Road Two!

    Hit the Road Two! is volume two, Oregon, in a series featuring each of the three states that carry Highway 99, the former main corridor that runs all the way through Canada to Mexico. […]

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    All Sinners Welcome

    All Sinners Welcome explores do-it-yourself or “DIY” religion in America. Photographs of storefront churches, quirky handmade church signs and expressions of faith in the landscape […]

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    Good Will & Salvation

    Good Will & Salvation is a tribute to my Mother, an avid thrift store shopper. Whenever we get together we spend our days trolling every Goodwill and Salvation Army store […]

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    Bless This House

    In the summer of 2006, nearly 250 families received notice that their three adjoining mobile home parks in Beaverton, Oregon would be closed and demolished to make way for redevelopment. […]

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    Hit The Road!

    Highway 99 runs all the way from Canada to Mexico. In its heyday, Highway 99 was the main corridor through Washington, Oregon and California. Replaced by Interstate 5 in the mid-1960’s, […]

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    Casa Milà

    During a magical visit to Barcelona I was completely captivated by Antoni Gaudí’s architecture. My husband and I saw every Gaudí site in town and were awed by the magic of his creations. […]

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    Urban Decay

    In my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan, decades of poverty and the decline of the automotive business are creating an urban blight that is heartbreaking. Lost factory jobs lead to lost homes […]

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    Neon A-Z

    This miniature ABC book contains photographs of letters found on vintage neon signs. The alphabet letters are paired with terminology and fun facts from the fascinating world of neon artistry […]

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    Create

    A limited-edition artist book of inspirational quotations about creativity paired with layered paper collages. Explores the innate need we all have to be creative in our day-to-day lives. […]

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    Urban Poetry: Street Seens

    Street Seens is the third book in the Urban Poetry series of artist books that explore various types of street graphics found in our urban environment. The search for these images has taken me […]

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    Heads Up!

    Heads Up! showcases photographs of stencil graffiti in a hanging book format. Using a grommet on the front cover, the book can be hung on a wall, allowing the pages to cascade down […]

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    Nocturne

    Feel the sizzle of electricity, the sparkle of a million lights. Neon lights up our skylines and enlivens our nights. The street at night is a symphony, orchestrated by automobiles, pedestrians […]

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    Colfax Day & Night

    Colfax Avenue is a special street in the hearts and minds of all Denverites. Its past is a colorful history of roadside landmarks and infamous travelers. Its present is a different kind of colorful […]

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    Fly: Aviation’s Pioneer Women

    Accordion structure artist book that celebrates the women of aviation’s history. Quotations from these pioneer women are paired with handmade paper collages depicting a runway, a compass […]

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    Colorado Wall Dogs

    Colorado Wall Dogs: Ghost Signs Across the State. This limited-edition artist book is an effort to preserve Colorado’s historic painted brick wall ghost signs by cataloging and photographing […]

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    Urban Poetry NYC

    This artist book showcases stencil graffiti found on the streets of New York City. The graffiti creates poetic and profound statements about the social issues of our times and carries […]

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    Consumption Junction

    Consumerism and simplicity are two themes that show up frequently in my work. Consumption Junction, classified as a “miniature book,” is a compilation of photographs of consumerist […]

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    Urban Poetry

    “Stop the Bombing” and “Love is a Revolution.” These are just two examples of stencil graffiti found in the neighborhoods surrounding downtown Denver. The graffiti carries anti-consumer, anti-war […]

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    Lakeside: An American Icon

    Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver was billed by ambitious investors in 1908 as the “Coney Island of the West.” This photographic artist book explores the timeless architecture, graphics, neon […]

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    Simplify

    A limited-edition artist book of inspirational quotes about simplifying one’s life. Explores ideas to reduce the complexity and chaos of our fast-paced world and reasons to appreciate the simpler […]

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