White Bird Press

White Bird Press ~ California (Terry Turrentine)

The Brass Bed A Story of Love Lost and Love Found By Terry Turrentine with Red Berry Editions Fairfax, California: Red Berry Editions, 2010. Edition of 25. 11 x 7.5"; 44 pages. Letterpress printed on Rives using Apple Casual type. Japanese stab binding. Bound by hand in Japanese handmade paper of Shizen with silkscreen prints. Red Berry Editions: "The Brass Bed is a true fairy tale about love lost and found. The narrative is accompanied by charming illustrations by Carl Dern." Carl Dern (1936 - 2009) worked in the field of applied arts, creating unique steel and bronze furniture and artistic chandeliers. The illustrations in The Brass Bed are drawings from the brass structures Dern created. Red Berry Editions was founded in 2008 by Marie C. Dern and Jane M. Downs. Jane Downs retired from the University of California Press in 2008. She is co-editor of Cloud View Poets, An Anthology, published in 2005. Marie Dern began Jungle Garden Press in 1974, which publishes small editions of letterpress-printed hand-bound books. $300	Click image for more


The Great Egret By Terry Turrentine, with an essay by Richard Lang Santa Cruz, California: White Bird Press, 2007. Edition of 30. 15 duotone photographs, 12 x 15" archival digital pigment prints on Somerset paper imaged by Conor Collins at Electric Works. Plus a pamphlet (7 x 11.5", 20 pages) printed letterpress by Richard Seibert on Hosho paper with Goudy Old Style and Lucida Calligraphy typefaces. Cover paper: Tairei. Book designed and bound by Marie Dern of Jungle Garden Press. Housed in cloth-covered clamshell box by John DeMerritt with title embossed on lid and a photograph (2.875 x 1.5") of an egret tipped on and inset. The inner covers of the box covered with photograph of rookery foliage. Top inner cover layered to provide support for pamphlet. Fifteen dramatic photographs of Great Egrets plus a general essay "Great Egrets" by Richard Lang and the short autobiographical sketch by the photographer. Terry Turrentine's great grandfather was John M. Browning, noted firearms designer. Shooting and hunting were an important part of her early years. Today, she shoots only with a camera. Terry Turrentine: "Egret rookeries are usually out of reach of even the longest telephoto lens and it's an arduous search for the right location. They are very sensitive to the presence of humans and will abandon their nests at the slightest hint of human interference. Sometimes, several seasons will come and go and I'll get no usable shots. On other occasions, I'll find just the right location with hundreds of Great Egrets building nests and attracting mates. I set up my tripod, camera and lens and for the next several hours I completely lose myself in the sensuality of their form. I shoot frame after frame from early morning until the end of the day, knowing that the only bad light is when there isn't enough." Richard Lang: "These photographs come to us as new texts, bringing tidingsof creation. They fill the need to connect with the world outside of ourselves, and they ring true to the ancient pathways of the psyche. "Art is the connective tissue between nature and the inner person. These photographs illuminate this point: they are unsentimental but full of wonder. In looking at the images, we many find ourselves re-examining our relationship to the real world. We may relish the way nature slowly reveals itself. In Terry Turrentine's work, we will find a reflection of both the way things are and the way we want them to be." $1,500	Click image for more Click image for more

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