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27 Good-byes

Title: 27 Good-byes

Photographer/s: Deanna Dikeman

Date of publication: August 2009

Place of publication: United States

Dimensions: 8 x 9.6 inches

Edition size: print on demand

Type of binding: softcover

Number of pages: 58

Type of paper: coated

Number of pictures: 28

Printer: Blurb

Language: English

Category: artist book

Price: $30

Summary: 27 Good-byes is a book I created in 2009 when I realized that I had 18 years of photographs that I had taken as I waved good-bye and drove away from my parents at their home in Iowa. I started in 1991 with a snapshot, and continued taking photographs with each departure. I never set out to make this series. These photographs are part of a body of work I call Relative Moments, which has chronicled the lives of my parents and other relatives since 1986. But as I discovered the subset of accumulated “leaving and waving” photographs, I found a small story to tell about family, love, and the pain of saying good-bye.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 1954, Sioux City, Iowa USA

Website: www.deannadikeman.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1034419

Donated by: Blurb

iPL Notes: This book was an Honorable Mention in the Fine Art Category of Blurb’s Photography Book Now competition, 2010.

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Published on February 10, 2011 2:07 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: 27 Good-byes, Blurb, Deanna Dikeman, Photography Competition Now 2010, POD, print on demand

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Three of a kind and one good-bye « Because it's there says:

July 1, 2011 at 1:05 pm

[...] and I want to be brought back to the original scenery. I found that in the book “27 Good byes” by Deanna Dikeman (also see this post on Blake Andrew’s Blog) and especially in the [...]

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Indie Photobook Library at the Corcoran – November 2-20, 2011

The Indie Photobook Library is pleased to announce it’s second feature-length exhibition!
Corcoran
November 2–November 20, 2011
Gallery 31

500 Seventeenth Street NW Washington, DC 20006
Gallery: (202) 639-1700

Curated by Muriel Hasbun, chair of photography, and Susan Sterner, director of photojournalism programs at the Corcoran College of Art + Design with assistance by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio.

10 Weeks: Ice Fishing in Wisconsin, Book 1, Mike Rebholz (Hand in Glove Press, 2011)

Anywhere but Here, Alex McTigue (self-published, 2010)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Trent Parke (LBM, 2010)

Cityscapes + Birdmen, Jacquie Maria Wessels (Voetnoot-Publishers, 2010)

CLINIC, with many contributing photographers (RVB & Images en Manoeuvres, 2008)

Club 13, Nils Petter Löfstedt (Pierre von Kleist editions, 2010)

Coverage, Christopher Dawson (Blurb, 2010)

Elisabeth – I Want to Eat, Mariken Wessels (Alauda Publications, 2010)

How Terry Likes His Coffee, Florian van Roekel (self-published, 2010)

island, Kyunghee Lee (Takahashi Kunihiro, 2008)

life is a series of small moments, Elizabeth Fleming (Magcloud, 2009)

Living Arrangements, Sarah Malakoff (Blurb, 2011)

Los restos de la revolución, Kevin Kunishi (Owl & Tiger Books, 2011)

Noroc, Cédric Von Turtelboom (Blurb, 2010)

On Approach, Daniel Milnor (Blurb, 2008)

Orchard Volume 1: Crime Victims Chronicle, Raymond Meeks and Deborah Luster (Silas Finch, 2010)

Palmwine & the Grass Cutter, Nick Neubeck (Seems, 2006)

Shared Sorrows, Divided Lines, Justyna Mielnikiewicz (Blurb, 2010)

Sint Gregoriushuis, Ruben Lundgren (WassinkLundgren / Roel& Uitgeefprojecten, 2005)

Studio, Harry Watts (Black Box Press, 2010)

Suburbia Mexicana, Alejandro Cartagena (Blurb, 2009)

The Daughters of Job, Alison Malone (Blurb, 2008)

The Devil’s Garden, Andrew Youngson (Blurb, 2011)

The Family, Stephan Bladh (Nouvel Publishing, 2010)

The Photograph Commands Indifference, Nicholas Muellner (A-Jump Books, 2009)

View From This Side, Mark Dyball (Blurb, 2009)

World Was in the Face of the Beloved, Eric Weeks (Pablo’s Birthday, 2007)

A reception for Selections from the Indie Photobook Library will be held at the Corcoran on Thursday, November 10, 2011 during FotoWeek DC from 6 to 8 p.m. Admission is FREE to the Corcoran for the week of FotoWeek DC.

Review in the Washington Post Express by Mark Jenkins. “…the Indie Photobook Library is fast becoming one of Washington’s more interesting small collections.”

Thank you to Joe Hale and all those involved in the exhibition design and installation.