LA botanical / Joyce Campbell.
LA Botanical is an ongoing project documenting each plant that grows in Los Angeles for which there is a documented use - be it food, medicine, weapon, abortive, analgesic, fuel, stimulant, building material, deadly toxin or mind altering entheogen. The plants are documented as wet-plate Ambrotypes,...
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| Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles, Ca. :
G727,
2007.
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| Summary: | LA Botanical is an ongoing project documenting each plant that grows in Los Angeles for which there is a documented use - be it food, medicine, weapon, abortive, analgesic, fuel, stimulant, building material, deadly toxin or mind altering entheogen. The plants are documented as wet-plate Ambrotypes, an anachronistic photographic form ubiquitous in the 1850's-1890s, the period during in which Los Angeles grew from a dusty town of 1400 inhabitants to a major metropolitan center. The project is an attempt to reconcile Campbell's own rural background with her life here in Los Angeles, one of the most sprawling and unsustainable metropolises on earth. |
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| Item Description: | Title from cover. Essay by Tessa Laird ; book design Fiona Jack. |
| Physical Description: | 83 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |