uscpress.com - Art & Photography https://uscpress.com/ Painting the Southern Coast https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410200/Painting-the-Southern-Coast
The beauty and spirit of coastal landscapes and waterways captured and celebrated in art

Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser is a stunning collection of the works of Wes…]]>
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What Is a Garden? https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410098/What-Is-a-Garden
Poet and environmentalist W. S. Merwin moved to Hawaii in 1976 and has spent the last forty years planting nineteen acres with more than eight hundred species of palm, creating a lush garden o…]]>
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Focus on Playwrights https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410173/Focus-on-Playwrights
A photographer's intimate view of writers' personal and creative journeys

In 1989 Susan Johann was hired to photograph Christopher Durang for a magazine article about his play Naomi in…]]>
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Charleston Renaissance Man https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410176/Charleston-Renaissance-Man
A study of the life, work, and extraordinary influence of an innovative architect

Albert Simons came of age during the vibrant years of the Charleston Renaissance in the early twentieth…]]>
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Row Upon Row, fourth edition https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410180/Row-Upon-Row-fourth-edition
An in-depth, illustrated history of South Carolina's Lowcountry baskets

Coiled grass baskets are icons of Gullah culture. From their roots in Africa, through their evolution on Lowcoun…]]>
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Birdlife https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410182/Birdlife
An illustrated flight across the Southeast

Birdlife invites readers into the lives of birds we often meet in the southeastern United States. Writer, scientist, and illustrator Todd Ball…]]>
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University of South Carolina in Focus https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410215/University-of-South-Carolina-in-Focus
A vivid portrait of one of the South's most beautiful college campuses

Chartered in 1801 and built upon a twenty-four-acre parcel of undeveloped land east of what is today the South Car…]]>
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Injustice in Focus https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410236/Injustice-in-Focus
The powerful life story and photography of an esteemed Black photojournalist

Cecil Williams is one of the few Southern Black photojournalists of the civil rights movement. Born and rais…]]>
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The Words and Wares of David Drake https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410232/The-Words-and-Wares-of-David-Drake
A celebration of the remarkable poem vessels of Dave the Potter

David Drake, who often signed his work simply as "Dave," was an enslaved potter who lived and worked in Edgefield Distric…]]>
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Scenic Impressions https://uscpress.com/book-post/3410078/Scenic-Impressions
The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from B…]]>
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