This book is the fourth in a series featuring a selection of Thiesen's photographs, each covering a different decade. Volume four begins in 2010, when I was 60 and living in St. Paul’s Irvine Park.
This book is the third in a series featuring a selection of Thiesen's photographs, each covering a different decade. The themes of the photographs continued to be searching for landscapes and gatherings, but a third theme, places, also emerged.
At the beginning of 1993, Thiesen had been living in Vienna, Austria, since the fall of 1990. He felt the need to view everything with fresh eyes, which he thought could be achieved by shooting with color film.
This is the second book in a series featuring a selection of Thiesen's photographs, each covering a different decade. This volume begins in 1990, when he was 40, living in downtown Minneapolis and working as a freelance photographer.
This is the first in a series of books containing a selection of Thiesen's photographs. Each book covered a decade, starting in 1979 when he turned thirty.
The photographs fell into the categories of landscapes or gatherings of people. He shot all the landscapes with black-and-white film, then sepia-toned and hand-colored with traditional photo oils.
Gatherings were shot with black and white film, lightly toned, but not colored. People were often photographed without their approval or awareness. I had in mind scenes for a movie or a short story.
The photographs fell into the categories of landscapes or gatherings of people. He shot all the landscapes with black-and-white film, then sepia-toned and hand-colored with traditional photo oils.
Gatherings were shot with black and white film, lightly toned, but not colored. People were often photographed without their approval or awareness. I had in mind scenes for a movie or a short story.
"Wednesday, January 1, 1873
A very nice day cutting and hauling wood to CS Hogan. Mr. Baily and Mather of Epworth called at our house to tell us there would be meeting that night."
This is how Thomas Jefferson Russell began his daybook for 1873 when he turned twenty-five. The daybook would describe his days corralling
horses, cutting and delivering wood, and some of his social life.
It also describes his journey across Iowa to Jackson County and the beginning of a life running his farm and courting his soon-to-be wife, Emma.
A very nice day cutting and hauling wood to CS Hogan. Mr. Baily and Mather of Epworth called at our house to tell us there would be meeting that night."
This is how Thomas Jefferson Russell began his daybook for 1873 when he turned twenty-five. The daybook would describe his days corralling
horses, cutting and delivering wood, and some of his social life.
It also describes his journey across Iowa to Jackson County and the beginning of a life running his farm and courting his soon-to-be wife, Emma.
In December 1941, James Thiesen was 18 when the United States declared war on the Axis forces. He had graduated from high school the previous spring and was working on his parents and uncle's farm in Jackson County on the Minnesota-Iowa border. He might have thought this would be his life—working on the farm, getting married, and having a family. But the war inserted itself into the dream.
One side of the family descended from early arrivals from England. The other branch came later as migrants from Scandinavia. They all gathered in Jackson County. Then they scattered again.
Christine Sell was born in east-central Iowa on June 25, 1891. The story follows her from a farm in northeastern to northwestern Iowa, working as a domestic, and then marriage and motherhood. Tena's story is made richer by the many photographs she left us.
This is the story of Peter Thiesen's journey from a village in northern Germany to Iowa, then to Wisconsin, back to Iowa, and finally to a farm in southern Minnesota.
This is a story of one path of our racial history, the one that started at my house. It’s a story about a neighbor who was a governor of the Virgin Islands, a relative who was the namesake of a race relations institute in Hawai’i, and me.
America’s war in Southeast Asia was fought on many fronts. Thailand provided a location from which our Air Force bombed North Viet Nam. Our airbases made a substantial impact on the lives of the Thai people. Their agrarian economy was changed forever by the commerce of war. Our presence continues to be felt in many ways. IN SIAM is a visual narrative, or story, based on my own observations of that time and place and is intended to serve as a reminder of the far reaching and lasting effects of war.
I am a Storyteller. For all my efforts experimenting with and developing various kinds of artworks, I invariably return to painting as the medium best suited to self-expression. The narratives in my paintings are the material of my life. The images I create reflect the people, places and events I’ve encountered.