BOOKS IN PORTLAND
AMPERSAND GALLERY AND BOOKSHOP
While in Portland this summer, I had a chance to visit Myles Haselhorst's airy and open space. Old and new books mix nicely with vintage bird prints, found photos and visually arresting documents of neglected history, creating a pocket-sized "retail archive" of pre-computer age visual culture.
In Haselhorst's own words:
"We believe that a collection of photographs, slides or photo postcards, deliberately selected & organized, provides a complex account of the visual language of everyday life.
The same is true of the transient & often incidental paper items that filtered through the hands of people now gone. Old letters, pamphlets, broadsides, menus, identification cards, invoices, advertisements & postcards (the list goes on & on) convey the little details of human routines that often get lost in broader studies of history."All this history actually makes for a very current shop, which also provides a look at the future through gallery exhibits and hard-to-find monographs of contemporary photographers. Thanks to Alisha Henson for pointing me there.
Erik! so glad you came out to pdx, looks like you had an awesome visit! I've been wanting to make a trip out to the Mt Angel Abbey so bad after you posted about it. It's been awhile since I've been there. Hope all is good!
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