Andrea Baldeck
Bones Books & Bell Jars / 2012

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BONES BOOKS & BELL JARS
Photographs of the Mütter Museum Collection

PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
HARDCOVER, 132 PAGES, 106 IMAGES
$35.00
300-LINE TRITONES on 115 LB. UTOPIA PREMIUM SILK TEXT
MARCH 2012
ISBN 978-0-9849406-0-8

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HIMALAYA: LAND OF THE SNOW LION / 2009

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HIMALAYA: LAND OF THE SNOW LION
2009
242 PAGES, 286 IMAGES
11.5” x 11.75”
400 LINE SCREEN QUADTONES on 115 LB. PHOENIXMOTION XENON SILK
ISBN 978-1-934536-09-4

The Himalaya, Asia’s jagged backbone, lured photographer Andrea Baldeck on four journeys covering thousands of miles from northern India to western China, the distillation of which is Himalaya: Land of the Snow Lion.

This volume provides a window onto an ancient enduring culture, bound by shared ethnicity and religion and challenged by daunting geography.

Portraits, landscapes, architecture, and still-life images convey the texture and rhythm of this mountain life, which is ever more threatened by the forces of geopolitics, migration, and modernization.

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Presence Passing / 2007

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Presence Passing
2007
210 pages , 190 images
9.75" x 12", 300-line tritones on 100-lb. Astrolite Silk
ISBN 978-1-934536-00-1 $75

Rooms uninhabited, spaces abandoned, and gardens neglected unsettle the imagination, provoke a sense of mystery, and prompt questions lacking answers.

Who built these structures, filled these empty rooms, tended orchard and garden, pursued a life here?
How long have they been gone? What remains, and why?
Forces of change ceaselessly re-order the landscape.
Our built world is no bulwark against them, but bears witness to human necessity, inventiveness and creativity.

In these photographs of spaces, places and objects evoking other times and lives, we are invited to conjure up those who gave them meaning, and to wonder what traces we ourselves will leave behind.

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Closely Observed / 2006

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Closely Observed
2006
176 pages , 178 images
10.625" x 10.25"
300-line tritones on 100-lb. McCoy Velvet
ISBN 1-931707-88-X • $49.95

The botanical world, while mute, speaks beguilingly to the eye.

It tells of physical beauty cunningly arranged to seduce the pollinators, adaptations to climate and geography, strategies for survival, and exuberant fecundity. Life spans of plants vary from months to centuries.

Evanescent or everlasting, the denizens of this kingdom astound with their variety, ubiquity, and elegance in engineering.

Moments of wonder in this cycle of birth, growth and decline, captured by the camera, arrest the eye and compel us to appreciate anew the richness and complexity of this world just beyond the window.

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The Heart of Haiti / 2006

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The Heart of Haiti
112 pages, 51 images
11.5" x 11.25"
300-line tritones printed on 100 lb. McCoy Velvet
ISBN 1­931707­85­5 $49.95

Andrea Baldeck, like many others around the world, worked as a physician at the hospital in 1981, 1983, and 1985. In 1996, she returned as a photographer.

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Touching the Mekong / 2003

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Touching the Mekong
156 pages, 150 images
11.5" x 12"
300-line tritones printed on 100-lb. McCoy Velvet
ISBN 1-931707-55-3 (cloth) • $75

Touching the Mekong is a visual exploration of contemporary life in those Southeast Asian countries which border, or contain within their borders, segments of the region’s largest river, the Mekong.

This timely photographic study provides a visual re-introduction to lands now at peace, and in transition.

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Venice a personal View / 1999

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Venice a personal View
164 pages, 189 images
11" x 10.5"
300-line tritones printed on 100-lb. McCoy Velvet
ISBN 1-931707-56-1 (cloth) • $75
ISBN 1-931707-57-X (pbk) • $50

Poised in delicate, often hazardous balance with the liquid natural world, the fabric of the manmade city rises out of the water and is reflected in it.

The earth of Venice, a tissue of alluvial silt, is upheld and given form by a vast subterranean endoskeleton of wooden pilings supporting buildings of splendor with their feet in the mud.

Fantastic, visionary, improbable, a contradiction and a wonder, this changeling city of the sea wields its magic with undiminished power.

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Talismanic / 1998

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Talismanic
1998
164 pages, 70 images
13 x 13"
300-line on 100-lb. McCoy Velvet
ISBN 1-931707-58-8 • $75

The photographs in this book spring from a respect for the logic and clarity of science, the order and variety of the natural world, and from the photographer’s fascination with the array of line, form, and pattern that occurs in our daily lives.

Talismans are endowed with magic virtue, charms diverse in their forms, holding the powers of healing or good fortune or potent magic, tinged always with a hint of the occult, the mysterious.

Drawn from the everyday world, changed through the alchemy of photography and the eye of the artist, these images remind us that sometimes the quotidian is the strangest of all.

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