tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50656197359691875222024-02-07T10:38:21.915-08:00Sara Jane Boyers AloudIt seems time to create a blog. As a photographer and a writer and most importantly - and sadly - a procrastinator, I have been immersed in dictionaries and quotations to figure out what I plan to do.
"Aloud" seems best. Aural, visceral and demanding another sense. Kinda like my work and thus here we are.Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-29430903522840011322023-09-28T13:51:00.001-07:002023-09-28T13:51:36.131-07:00<p> It's been more than a while here and yet here I am, talking about books at a time when often, I check into news from places like Florida where books are being banned, hidden, right and left. What a shame when histories are being shielded and helpful books and inspiring stories and poetry are not there enough to bring up and together our wildly diverse yet wonderful people.</p><p>That said, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, my first book and well awarded is still showing up in bookstores and on reading lists. This image, from this week up front at the bookstore of the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts)!!!</p><p>LIFE Is now 30 years of publication, in two editions, the first and then the 25th Anniversary Edition which you see here...</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJgBbYY48rcdkihztCZwHYmj3YsZCTpO5WvxYor-eD8cLeKPorkPzYWCqko6zopytL8K2ONi5rP4U4gOLsE43VTIVLWUVuytcJ_R9KFgD0zgVEZM6kJ7NoQoi4ZUJhnZPUgpCDjWZQZ4TzV3ztu6AQ6el27SE9sbajPR-kIJghm626Mwb7jzVgbOhhPjs/s1000/LIFE%20atthe%20DIA2023sml.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJgBbYY48rcdkihztCZwHYmj3YsZCTpO5WvxYor-eD8cLeKPorkPzYWCqko6zopytL8K2ONi5rP4U4gOLsE43VTIVLWUVuytcJ_R9KFgD0zgVEZM6kJ7NoQoi4ZUJhnZPUgpCDjWZQZ4TzV3ztu6AQ6el27SE9sbajPR-kIJghm626Mwb7jzVgbOhhPjs/s320/LIFE%20atthe%20DIA2023sml.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-6517666604182817992021-06-18T13:57:00.011-07:002021-06-18T14:06:05.136-07:00<p> Wow - so long since my last post on this blog. Well what happened? The pandemic for one. A frightening time for us all and while the United States is opening up, other countries still bear many restrictions and even in the US, we continue to be mindful of others, wearing our masks still in public and noting that booster shots and even a newer variant may put us again at risk. So, while we are optimistic, hope all of you remain cautious, even if not for you but for those around you.</p><p>And during this time, I turned to an opportunity presented: an examination of several aspects of live theatre, one totally photographic and another I am researching and photographing to become a book for children and young adults. The latter I'll be able to resume working on very soon, I hope.</p><p>I have to say that the best activity during this truly scary and isolating time was to read ... and read I did, from wonderful prose that has aways interested me to an exploration into all sorts of curious subjects. Best, back to some of my favorite illustrated books for youth. What a marvelous time to explore, relax and gain inspiration from words and images.</p><p>Others must have done so as well as LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, most recently in its 25th Anniversary Edition, appeared on numerous book lists during this time, including several that recommended it as the perfect book for young children during the pandemic. ALSO appearances on MSNBC and Good Morning America; a visual recommendation from Bridgerton's first season heartthrob, Regé-Jean Page (!), my favorite Basquiat dragon (<i>Pez Dispenser)</i> appearing on the Coach Store window on New York City's Fifth Avenue! </p><p><span>I am always being sent LIFE's appearance in bookstore windows, including lots of US bookstores, but also in England, Germany, France and South Africa among many others! So glad to see it in company with all my favorite books, many art books, (child and adult) but many others including ELOISE!!!!</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>BTW, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME now has its own page on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LifeDoesntFrightenMe25thAnniversaryEdition">FB</a>, and a fun page on Instagram at #lifedoesntfrightenme ! 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<br />Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-50919967730663923062018-07-23T14:54:00.000-07:002018-07-23T14:54:09.446-07:00Discussion & Book-Signing at Artbook@HauserWirth/LA on 21 July!!!!!What a great day this was! So honored that <a href="http://www.sndx.net/">Shana Nys Dambrot</a> took time from her incredibly busy schedule as an art critic, writer and curator to explore with me the <a href="https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/life-doesnt-frighten-me-twenty-fifth-anniversary-edition_9781419727481/">LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION</a>. Loved the discussion over this first book that I ever created where I married the so expressive artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat to Dr. Maya Angelou's powerful words about empowerment and overcoming fear.<br />
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It's been 25 years since LIFE was first published and in the ensuing time, I became the artist that I always wanted to be and this perspective on this new, updated edition of mine (Abrams Books) was so fascinating to chat about.<br />
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Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-89548670173798490012018-07-09T07:46:00.002-07:002018-07-09T07:46:55.397-07:00For LA friends and followers: Mark your calendar for Saturday, 21 July, 3-5 pm for a discussion, book-signing with Shana Nys Dambrot on the 25th Anniversary Edition of LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME (Abrams) where I paired the so expressive artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat with the great empowering 1978 poem of Dr. Maya Angelou. To be held at artbook@Hauser&Wirth/LA!<br />
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and around which I built my home is now scheduled to disappear, too large and
too old to live and be safe. I walk the yard before the sun appears. I
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and of course it is NOW Black History Month, a special time when we have the opportunity to understand, even more clearly, how so many artists and writers who have become American legends such as Dr. Angelou and Jean-Michel Basquiat had to struggle to make themselves seen and heard because of race. We are in a better time now although ironically, a difficult time when tensions have again arisen. Let's all work to ensure that we are all heard and not through the filter of something that defines us, yes, but NOT something that stops us. That is the message not only of LIFE25 but should be for us all.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jean-Michel Basquiat’s fierce, tumultuous paintings (see above) exude terrific power—and a measure of unexpected humor—when paired with Maya Angelou’s verse in the picture book “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” (Abrams, 40 pages, $19.95). <b>First published in 1993, this arresting volume, edited by Sara Jane Boyers, uses a high-impact typeface to convey its message of defiance.</b> “Shadows on the wall / Noises down the hall / Life / Doesn’t / Frighten / Me / at all,” writes Angelou (1928-2014). A skeletal man and dog splashed with red and orange paint, a monstrous bear-man, and other images by Basquiat (1960-88) express wild feelings and even terrors. We see two inchoate figures battle with boxing gloves, their teeth bared, and read: “Tough guys in a fight / All alone at night / Life doesn’t / Frighten me / At all.” <b>It’s a refrain that children ages 6-10 may want to chant to themselves long after they’ve put down the book.</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3156#m38936">ShelfAwareness</a><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LIFE is the first book I created and edited, pairing the expressive art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and the empowering l978 poem by Dr. Maya Angelou. In LIFE25, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.11999999731779099px;">I am delighted to have been able to update these amazing artists' biographies and add an afterword and Abrams has honored LIFE by creating a new trim size and wrapped it in a very beautiful clothbound edition that honors its success while also appealing to not only youth but the many adults, graduating students and others to whom LIFE has meant so much. Dr. Maya Angelou's so beautifully crafted and powerful words and Jean-Michel Basquiat's expressive art continue to inspire and give us strength and resolve.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read more about LIFE25 on the <a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/life-doesnt-frighten-me_9781419727481/">Abrams Books site</a> </span>and on my LIFE25 FB page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Life-Doesnt-Frighten-Me-The-Book-1961738740734795/?notif_id=1515339882290727&notif_t=page_user_activity"><b>LIFE DOESNT FRIGHTEN ME - THE BOOK</b></a>. I'll be updating the FB page continually, including indie bookstores carrying LIFE25 and events being planned. On the FB page, read the "About" to understand why I created this wonderful book and what it has meant already to so many.<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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AND ... a lovely honor: the first author invited to share a bit about writing process on Anastasia Suen's popular blog site for her new <a href="http://asuen.com/life-doesnt-frighten-me-25/">Sunday Guest Post Series</a>, published today!</div>
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Oh and BTW, here are just some of the awards and reviews of the original LIFE, published in 1993. With LIFE25, the impact, basic design and wonder remains!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you to all my readers and others who have always made me aware of what LIFE meant to them. It has inspired me to continue writing (and photographing) so that I can share </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with all of you </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the individuals, the places, the ideas of where we live, work, and create.</span></div>
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It's official: The release date of <a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/life-doesnt-frighten-me_9781419727481/">LIFE DOESNT FRIGHTEN ME (Twenty Fifth Anniversary Edition)</a> is set for <b><u>JANUARY 9, 2018.</u></b><br />
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Beloved by so many children and adults and still in print, this classic has been refreshed with updated graphics, updated biographies of both of these icons of American creativity, Dr. Maya Angelou and Jean-Michel Basquiat plus an afterword by me as to why I created this book, and new resources to check out the work of both of the poet and artist.<br />
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There will be more to come but know at present that I am hoping to be out and about with the book, for book signings and some events, at the least in February, Black History Month and beyond. We were delighted to be so generously advised by <a href="https://www.mayaangelou.com/">Caged Bird Legacy</a>, the Estate of Dr. Angelou, that there will be events surrounding what would have been her 90th (!) birthday this coming April 2018. BTW, April is also Poetry Month, so fitting for this powerful poet. What a gift to all of us she has been.<br />
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Just before her death, Dr. Angleou recorded several of her writings, including LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME and we are so happy to be able to hear it here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yAhMOnMpM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6yAhMOnMpM</a><br />
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As well, there is great new publicity for Jean-Michel Basquiat, always contemporary, involving his <a href="https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2017/event/basquiat-boom-for-real">current exhibition in London at the Barbican</a>, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/boom-real-new-documentary-celebrates-life-artist-jean-michel-basquiat-n801371">a new documentary</a> focusing on his teen years and then, next year an exhibition, again in Europe, at the startling and vital Foundation Vuitton in Paris, an awe-inspiring museum designed by our own Los Angeles architectural genius, Frank Gehry.<br />
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We - Abrams Books, myself the creator/editor of LIFE, Caged Bird Legacy - the powerful presence today of the Estate of Maya Angelou - and those so involved in continuing the focus of one of the great artists of the 20th Century, Jean-Michel Basquiat - are so proud that we can bring this book out to all you new readers and those that have known it as a classic for so long.<br />
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If you would like to know where I will be, especially in February, email me and/or check into this blogger post!Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-13490192719031183532017-07-05T12:25:00.003-07:002017-07-05T12:38:57.327-07:00Readying for SCBWIGuess I might call myself again an author!<br />
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It is Summer 2018 and while continuing heavily with photography, I am about to join fellow authors and illustrators, many old friends and hopefully many new, at the annual Society of Children's Book Writers And Illustrators (SCBWI) conference here in Los Angeles. It's time to recommence working on my craft.<br />
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<b>LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME</b>: Still in print after its release to acclaim in 1993, my pairing of the expressive artwork of the late artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat with a 1978 poem by one of our American idols, Maya Angelou is about to be re-marketed by Abrams Books for Young Readers in a <a href="http://www.abramsbooks.com/product/life-doesnt-frighten-me_9781419727481/">25th Anniversary Edition</a>, to be released next January 2018.<br />
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In this edition, I have the privilege of writing and adding an afterword, updating the biographies and resource materials and helping create a new look for this classic. Here is the proposed cover!<br />
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<b>COME FLY A KITE: SATURDAYS AT THE BEACH WITH TYRUS WONG:</b></div>
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My friend, Tyrus Wong, died at the end of last year 2016 at the venerable age of 106. I last photographed him out at Southern California's Santa Monica Beach last summer when he was 105.<br />
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At his death, his life was celebrated worldwide, including the front page of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/movies/tyrus-wong-dies-bambi-disney.html">New York Times</a> with my photographic portrait of him, and in the documentary by filmmaker Pamela Tom, set to broadcast on PBS American Masters on 8 September this year. <br />
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The major retrospective of Tyrus' artwork, including his early drawings for Walt Disney's <i>Bambi</i> was held at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco in 2013 and again at the Museum of Chinese in America in NYC. In both exhibitions, I was asked to create the photographic "story" of Tyrus and his kites. A small version of that exhibition - many of the kites and my photographs - is now on view in Malibu, CA at their City Hall through the end of July.<br />
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I am so pleased to announce that I am working on a book for youth on Tyrus' 40+ years after he retired and learning how to make and fly his artistic kites! I had created a promo book about them as part of my photographic project process (can be seen online at <a href="https://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto/docs/sjboyers_goflyakite_1">https://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto/docs/sjboyers_goflyakite_1</a>) and now, it seems time to share the work and Tyrus' amazing life with young readers. Look soon for further news!!!!!</div>
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Much of the work I hope to do now revolves around my favorite format: illustrated picture books. Presently my goal is to write and photo-illustrate. With major interest and investment in the arts throughout my life, it feels that this is where I fit.<br />
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I hope some of you, former readers and new ones, will join me in this exploration. Whether for youth or, as in the case of my two long-term photo projects - FINDING CHINATOWN: AN AMERICAN STORY and DETROIT:DEFINITION - that I am merging as well into books (and of course, exhibition), there are always stories to present for a variety of ages. <br />
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It is good to be back. <br />
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<b>OTHER NEWS, PART BOOK AND PART PHOTOGRAPHY:</b><br />
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A written essay by me, " .... No, It's Not the East," will be published this summer by Belt Publishing in their <a href="http://beltmag.com/detroit-neighborhood-guidebook/">DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDEBOOK</a>.<br />
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An article on a house designed by the respected mid-century California-based architect, Pierre Koenig, and featuring my photography was just published in the Summer2017 issue of <a href="http://modernmag.com/from-the-editor-when-more-is-less/">MODERN MAGAZINE</a>, to be online soon but now on the racks!</div>
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<br />Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-37217970550342954822016-12-15T20:29:00.001-08:002017-10-12T19:33:03.431-07:00Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-1409999445743675962016-12-15T20:25:00.002-08:002016-12-15T20:29:26.244-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-57957529377836548052016-07-07T19:59:00.003-07:002017-10-12T19:33:03.461-07:00Old Into New: My return to Books. My continuance in Photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As many know, in the first years of the millennium while promoting and writing what was probably one of the first "blogs" - then an periodic email - relating to my 2000 book, TEEN POWER POLITICS: MAKE YOURSELF HEARD, I started to shift my creative career toward my passion since youth: photography. <br />
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I loved the three books that I had created, wrote and edited for the youth market, several of which crossed-over to adult reader, but it seemed time to also pursue what had always been so central to my life in helping me capture experience and story: photography. I had no intention of leaving writing, as the sheer delight of being able to bring joy, beauty and critical thinking all in one package to youth and their families has always been a goal. Rather I took a sabbatical to explore what else I was capable of doing.<br />
<br />
I have still been writing whether for the small portfolio books/catalogues that
I created for my photographic work these many years (viewable online
at <b><a href="https://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto">issuu</a></b>) or,
since the sensibility of a writer is always present in terms of
creating a project, in editing and presenting a portfolio. Much
that I explored photographically has also given rise to book ideas and I
have been making dummies, many of them using my
photographic imagery as the story, or a part of it.<br />
<br />
Now, it is 15+ years down the road and I have an active fine
art photographic career with exhibits in galleries, museums and most
recently a small participation in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious
Venice Biennale/Architecture! It is time to combine both of my loves -
words and visuals - and several
book projects will be soon out to publishers. I even have a new
children's
literary agent for my new book projects, one I have always admired and with whom I really look
forward to working!<br />
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<b>Erzsi Deàk</b><br />
Hen&ink, A Literary Studio<br />
<a href="http://henandink.com/">http://henandink.com</a> </div>
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erzsi@henandink.com</div>
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It is a bit back to square one although I am very proud to say that my first book, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, pairing the words of Maya Angelou with the evocative artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and published in l993 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang (now Abrams) is now almost 25 years in print! It had been more than gratifying to have heard so many tell me how inspirational LIFE has been for them, child and adult, and I certainly hope to create more books that could also attain those goals.<br />
<br />
At present, I am reconfiguring SaraJaneBoyersAloud as my temporary literary website to showcase the work before and chat/announce news about this renewed direction. I look forward to many of you joining me on this journey. When my new website - <b>sarajaneboyersbooks.com</b> - comes online, I'll certainly make a splash announcement!<br />
<br />
Those of you new here are welcome to look back on SaraJaneBoyersAloud to see how, during these years in photography, I have yet written about subjects that concern us all and it may be, as the years continue here, that I will do so again, not only about my own books and images, but about life and matters as well. For now: the books!<br />
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<i>Sara Jane Boyers </i>July 2016<br />
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And BTW: since it is an election year in the US, do wander over to the TEEN POWER POLITICS website at <b><a href="http://www.teenpowerpolitics.com/">www.teenpowerpolitics.com</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The site and issues are <u>really outdated</u> (2000!) BUT the concerns of this respected non-partisan book for youth on civic and political activism and the information imparted are still relevant today in terms of critical thinking for elections and the book remains on various political websites.</span></div>
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Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-26889777814473495882016-07-07T19:59:00.002-07:002016-08-03T20:01:01.850-07:00Old Into New: My return to Books. My continuance in Photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As many know, in the first years of the millennium while promoting and writing what was probably one of the first "blogs" - then a periodic email - relating to my 2000 book, TEEN POWER POLITICS: MAKE YOURSELF HEARD, I started to shift my creative career toward my passion since youth: photography. <br />
<br />
I loved the three books that I had created, wrote and edited for the youth market, several of which crossed-over to adult reader, but it seemed time to also pursue what had always been so central to my life in helping me capture experience and story: photography. I had no intention of leaving writing, as the sheer delight of being able to bring joy, beauty and critical thinking all in one package to youth and their families has always been a goal. Rather I took a sabbatical to explore what else I was capable of doing.<br />
<br />
I have still been writing whether for the small portfolio books/catalogues that
I created for my photographic work these many years (viewable online
at <b><a href="https://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto">issuu</a></b>) or,
since the sensibility of a writer is always present in terms of
creating a project, in editing and presenting a portfolio. Much
that I explored photographically has also given rise to book ideas and I
have been making dummies, many of them using my
photographic imagery as the story, or a part of it.<br />
<br />
Now, it is 15+ years down the road and I have an active fine
art photographic career with exhibits in galleries, museums and most
recently a small participation in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious
Venice Biennale/Architecture! It is time to combine both of my loves -
words and visuals - and several
book projects will be soon out to publishers. I even have a new
children's
literary agent for my new book projects, one I have always admired and with whom I really look
forward to working!<br />
<br />
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<b>Erzsi Deàk</b><br />
Hen&ink, A Literary Studio<br />
<a href="http://henandink.com/">http://henandink.com</a> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
erzsi@henandink.com</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11.0pt;">+336
8993 7475</span> </div>
<br />
<br />
It is a bit back to square one although I am very proud to say that my first book, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, pairing the words of Maya Angelou with the evocative artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and published in l993 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang (now Abrams) is now almost 25 years in print! It had been more than gratifying to have heard so many tell me how inspirational LIFE has been for them, child and adult, and I certainly hope to create more books that could also attain those goals.<br />
<br />
At present, I am reconfiguring SaraJaneBoyersAloud as my temporary literary website to showcase the work before and chat/announce news about this renewed direction. I look forward to many of you joining me on this journey. When my new website - <b>sarajaneboyersbooks.com</b> - comes online, I'll certainly make a splash announcement!<br />
<br />
Those of you new here are welcome to look back on SaraJaneBoyersAloud to see how, during these years in photography, I have yet written about subjects that concern us all and it may be, as the years continue here, that I will do so again, not only about my own books and images, but about life and matters as well. For now: the books!<br />
<br />
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<i>Sara Jane Boyers </i>July 2016<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Doesnt-Frighten-Maya-Angelou/dp/1556702884/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467950978&sr=1-1&keywords=life+doesn%27t+frighten+me"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stewart, Tabori & Chang (Abrams Books) 1993 </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The site and issues are <u>really outdated</u> (2000!) BUT the concerns of this respected non-partisan book for youth on civic and political activism and the information imparted are still relevant today in terms of critical thinking for elections and the book remains on various political websites.</span></div>
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Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-87007249528255400052015-04-28T16:19:00.001-07:002015-04-28T16:22:08.612-07:00Lunar New Year Greeting 2015 AND Spring 2015 Update!Realized I never posted this year's Year of the Sheep Lunar Greeting from February<br />
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So honored to be included in BOTH SIDES OF SUNSET: PHOTOGRAPHING LOS ANGELES, from Metropolis Books/D.A.P., to be premiered at ParisPhotoLA on this coming Saturday, 2 May from 3pm - 4pm.<br /><br />Come to ParisPhotoLA on Saturday where 50 of the artists (including me!) will participate in a massive book launch & signing at the Glee VIP Room (the New York Backlot on Chicago street). Books will also be available at the ArtBook/D.A.P. booth and online.<br /><br />The list of photographers included is long and stellar (below is only the list signing Saturday) and it is a privilege to be among them.<br /><br /> <br />BOTH SIDES OF SUNSET is edited by Jane Brown & Marla Kennedy with an introduction by David Ulin and forward by Ed Ruscha.<br /> <br />My contribution: Two prints from my GRIDLOCK project.<br /><br />AND IN OTHER NEWS:<br />Just returned from the New York City opening of Water to Paper: Paint to Sky, Tyrus Wong's retrospective that traveled from the Walt Disney Family Musem, SF to the Museum of Chinese in America and in which I have ten large prints of Tyrus, his family and community out flying kites at Santa Monica Beach<br /><br />Lots of wonderful accolades for this so gracious and talented man including an article in the Wall Street Journal (and using my photographs!).<br />At the New York Historical Society I was able to finally see the installation of my photographs of Tyrus and his kites - the closing panel and in the closing video - in their just closed exhibition: Chinese Americans: Inclusion/Exclusion. The exhibition is traveling early 2016 to the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, OR.<br /><br /> Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-28711634430120916852014-12-25T10:38:00.000-08:002014-12-25T10:43:16.254-08:00Sara Jane Boyers Photo_Winter Update 2014<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Fall consisted of several deadlines, two museum openings for exhibitions that contained work from me and two important visits as I returned to my <b>DETROIT: DEFINTION </b>project. A good season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>WATER TO PAPER: PAINT TO SKY @MOCA_NYC</b><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>March 2014</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Museum of Chinese in America, New York<br /><a href="http://www.mocanyc.org/">www.mocanyc.org</a></i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The retrospective of now 104 year-old artist, TYRUS WONG, is traveling from its 2013 opening at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco to NYC's Museum of Chinese In America, a recent building designed by artist/designer Maya Lin, the creator of the elegant and poignant Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in DC. <br /><br />A beautifully compiled exhibition on such a talented artist and lovely man, the section of the exhibition with my photographic "story" of Tyrus and friends flying his hand-made kites at the beach was a hit in SF and will be included in the NYC retrospective as will be the elegant exhibition catalog that features a centerfold of my kite photographs. My little book GO FLY A KITE: SATURDAYS AT THE BEACH WITH TYRUS WONG will also be there. It can be previewed on issuu at <a href="http://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto/docs/sjboyers_goflyakite_1">http://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto/docs/sjboyers_goflyakite_1</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles</b><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Metropolis Books/Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P)<br />Launching at ParisPhotoLA 2015</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SECOND: News From SUMMER, FALL, WINTER 2014</b></span><br /><br /><b>update: GRIDLOCK @ LEICA GALLERY LOS ANGELES </b><br />T<span style="font-size: x-small;">he exhibit is over but there is nothing better than a great interviewer, even post-show, who makes you feel comfortable and asks intelligent, provocative questions. Ibarionex Perello made me sound so good and in so doing, helped me also understand better what in fact I am doing. So honored as well to be among the photographers he has chosen to speak with! The interview is available on <a href="http://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe">The Candid Frame </a> (#238)<br /><br />The limited edition set of boxed prints, <b>Gridlock: Tire & Tread</b> is still at the Leica Gallery/LA, as is a framed photograph from the show, hanging in their VIP viewing room!</span><br /><b> </b></span></div>
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great African-American woman whose brave poem, combined the expressive
art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, jump-started my writing career.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I
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where I paired her 1978 eponymous poem with Basquiat's powerful imagery
for an illustrated book for youth on contemporary art & poetry.
LIFE still stands strong over 20+ years later.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
2013 I received a surprise call from Dr. Angelou who asked if I would
like to do another book with her. So excited, I had planned to get to
it this year. I made a mistake, thinking that such a strong, creative
individual who gave so much would live forever. Her words still do.</span></span></div>
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The exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum of the Tyrus Wong retrospective was amazing and my wall of large photographs of Tyrus at the beach with his kites, his family and community told a perfect story of this artist's last 40 years of creativity and activity. My thanks to the late Diane Disney, Michael LaBrie and the WDFM for mounting such a beautiful, comprehensive and well-deserved show. It was an honor to be in it and a pleasure to experience the depth and beauty of Tyrus' work.<br />
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I am happy to report that Tyrus Wong is now 103 (to be 104 in October) and still comes out to Santa Monica Beach to fly his kites and enchant everyone.<br />
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Based upon the prints and my photobook GO FLY A KITE: SATURDAYS AT THE BEACH WITH TYRUS WONG (available for purchase online through <a href="http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/606674">Magcloud</a> and viewable at <a href="http://issuu.com/sarajaneboyersphoto/docs/sjboyers_goflyakite_1">issuu</a>, the New York Historical Society has asked for several of my prints to illustrate the concluding panel of their upcoming exhibition: <a href="http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/chineseamerican">CHINESE AMERICAN: EXCLUSION/INCLUSION</a> <br />
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In the Winter, I prepared for an exhibition at the new Leica Gallery Los Angeles, a beautiful modernist gallery/Leica store where even the cameras are so elegantly displayed. The project was GRIDLOCK, my series of photographs taken from my driver's seat while stopped in traffic, primarily in Los Angeles. I loved putting the work in a grid format and also prepared an accompanying small boxed limited edition portfolio, Gridlock: Tire & Tread. <br />
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Ibarionex Perello, multi-talented writer, photographer, educator... interviewed me about GRIDLOCK for his international renowned podcast, <a href="http://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/2014/6/29/the-candid-frame-238-sara-jane-boyers">The Candid Frame</a>. My interview is No 238 and was conducted on June 29, 2014. </div>
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I was also interviewed by the <a href="http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/sara-jane-boyers-photography-from-the-drivers-seat/">Leica Camera Blog</a>.<br />
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During these more major exhibition periods I continue to shoot more for my fine art architecture project, REVISIT.RENEW.NEW; worked at times in collaboration with fellow photographer, Martin Cox, on several commercial architectural shoots - fascinating design and architecture! - and shooting the beginnings of an exciting new house by a major architect rising only a few houses away from me; several small group exhibits/projects; and taking the time to re-think how I approach my long-term project on Detroit, DETROIT: DEFINITION where I will visit with more focus in the Fall.<br />
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Architecture and design has always fascinated me, whether captured for exhibition and publication or shooting to involve my work in conversation with great design - residential, commercial and for hospitality (where we experience, i.e., hotels, restaurants, gathering places) - the environs of living has always been evident in the way I see and I am now in the middle of setting up a specific online portfolio/website for selected work, presently in an early "design" format at <a href="http://www.sarajaneboyers.com/">www.sarajaneboyers.com</a>.<br />
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BUT THE BEST NEWS!!!! -- a return, finally to my writing. Over the years I have been away - now almost 14 years since my last book, TEEN POWER POLITICS, was published - I have been playing with ideas, thinking of new directions in the world of books for youth, my publication focus for years. Of course LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, my first book, is still going strong 21 years after publication and award after award. I created/edited LIFE, the initial design (the end polished result won a prestigious AIGA "50 Best Books of the Year" award), and married the powerful imagery of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat with Dr. Maya Angelou's strong words of her 1978 eponymous poem. Good to try for that again!!!! My sadness of course is the recent passing of Dr. Angelou, a loss for our entire country.<br />
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I look back over the 14 years, most specifically to TEEN POWER POLITICS, for the world has changed for all of us, youth especially since the beginning of the new millennium. I'd like to bring this book back, refreshed, filled with our new concerns and hopes while acknowledging a different world post 911 on the darker side but also new approaches and attitudes - a greater acceptance of our global cultures, ethnic diversity - on the more positive side. Civic responsibility is key and TPP was important in 2000. I hope to make it relevant and a part of the instrument of change again.<br />
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I have so missed the world of publishing while feeling yet so lucky to finally feel a sense of confidence and belonging in the world of photography, my very very first love. The return to writing, creating works and imagery now using my own photographic sensibility as well as the literary is exciting for me and I find myself with almost too many projects to explore, all the while retaining the visual expression - so much without words - that characterizes and will continue to characterize my fine art photographic work.<br />
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I return with the experience, the tools and best, the ability to incorporate my words with powerful photos and illustration. This weekend is the annual SCBWI (Society of Children's Writers & Illustrators) Conference and although my deadline schedule is not permitting me to attend it in full, I have created a new "quickie" card and have already visited, getting back into the rhythm, and find what it is I can do now.... literary and visual. A good moment!<br />
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<br />Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-81078615865395103572013-10-19T06:08:00.000-07:002017-10-12T19:33:03.523-07:00Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-8157869695387377502013-08-09T10:40:00.001-07:002013-08-09T10:40:46.971-07:00Busy Year....Been so busy that I've not taken time to post. Up now, my Summer Update to all of my photography projects and a nice notice on my first book, LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, now up in a "Best Books" display at the New York Public Library. Still going strong after 20 years of publication!<br />
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The SARA JANE BOYERS PHOTO SUMMER UPDATE: <a href="http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=013a28d9f024038bd399086bb&id=6f3fdb338f&e=9151fee9c4">http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=013a28d9f024038bd399086bb&id=6f3fdb338f&e=9151fee9c4</a><br />
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The Update includes information on the Tyrus Wong retrospective at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco that includes several large prints of my photgraphs of Tyrus and his kites out at Santa Monica Beach. There is a beautiful exhibition catalog (see update) as well as my small book on the Kites for sale at the museum store and the catalog as well on Amazon and in bookstores.<br />
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WATER TO PAPER, PAINT TO SKY: THE ART OF TYRUS WONG opens next week, the 15th in San Francisco.<br />
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NYPL "Best Books" display featuring LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, my award-winning pairing of the eloquent words of Dr. Maya Angelou and the evocative art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.<br />
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<br />Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-75007191802342679302013-03-28T17:56:00.000-07:002017-10-12T19:33:03.504-07:00DesertIt is hard to think about photography in the desert. So many have covered this topic, many so successfully.<br />
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This surreal landscape, even for those of us who have grown up in a desert (for isn't that what Los Angeles truly is?), fascinates most of us with its alien forms, its unrelenting sun and tones of beige sand reaching out past the horizon. As opposed to the far-reaching landscape of the marine environment where, yes, there is also the blue prevailing color that is comforting, the desert brings us feelings of unease and a bit of danger.<br />
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And for imagery, the desert is about contrast, between the loneliness and the stark landscape beauty. Between the need to see life and the desolate definition that requires hardship, struggle and lays bare not only our human, but life's need for one of its most basic elements: water. <br />
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Is it exotic? Is it safe when wherever we tread - urban desert like Palm Springs or Tuscon - or foreign of the Sahara - we search out the strange creatures that could attack us?<br />
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The American Deserts are where we go for the exotic. The empty spaces attract those who want to be our but without. Those who escape, for a time, the harrowing winters, known as the "snowbirds." Those who seek solace in the silence and in a place where the grand vistas speak to the silence. <br />
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In the desert we rarely sit inside to watch TV but venture outdoors, even in the most oppressing heat, to hike, sit on a porch to read and watch the sunset, breathe in the dry air and enter into a quiet moment, often with just ourselves. With native vegetation mostly untouched, those with holistic or mystical yearnings arrive to discover what is there in the vacant space while at the same times, themselves in a place with few distractions. The words of the "urban" desert: retreat and nature.<br />
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Even when social, the deserts are places of retreat, where one can meet together with like kind and focus. It is a place of fantasy where someone like the late multimillionaire founder of Avery labels can purchase a swath of land and commission an LA-based sculptor to create a melting pot of mythic and mesozoic and mythologial beings that one drives through like a christmas/disneyland tour, standing silent, occasionally headless due to the high desert winds, to give offerings to some great god of visual perception and tourism<br />
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This past weekend, I did exactly that: meeting with children's writer friends in Anza Borrego, one of our nation's largest state parks. Under the illusion that we were there for the wildflowers, we discovered so much more.<br />
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For me, so long now into photography the gathering brought me back to my writing roots. It returned me to family memories of a visit 20 years past with children not yet even teens, driving off-road with un-licensed children at the wheel - one so small that she had to sit in front of me to gain the proximity to even reach the pedals. The desert is a place of breaking the codes.<br />
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Most essential, brought me to childhood, from scents of orange blossoms on the highway - no freeway - drives through the inland empire, stopping at the tracks for the trains to race through, to lush manufactured oasis' in Palm Springs where mountains turned obsidian in the night and dry hot air determined one's activities for the day.<br />
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Hope, stuff get abandoned in the desert. We arrive full of hope. Some of us leave full of despair. The artifacts remain, faded, sun-drenched. In Southern California we even have a natural 20th Century artifact, the Salton Sea. Man-made, if not by design, but achieving a natural state, then subsiding, literally and figuratively, until both commerce and the environment combine to demonstrate its death toll until it, like the dcaying structures that surround it tell what we most wish not to hear: that man and his environment fades, no matter what we do.<br />
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I find it ironic that, although there are deserts worldwide and, in fact, we share a large part of our Western deserts - the Sonoran - with the middle east and probably elsewhere, there is a true American sensability to the Southwestern desert.Sara Jane Boyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15775165555129977531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5065619735969187522.post-10367973101931520522013-02-26T08:22:00.001-08:002013-02-26T08:23:24.181-08:00Gun Hay Fat Choy! The Lunar New YearThe Lunar New Year celebration has just ended.<br />
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In many Asian countries and communities, it is a fifteen day ceremony that commences the Lunar calendar. As a part of my long-term project, FINDING CHINATOWN:An American Story, I pay an annual visit to the "chinatowns" in the greater Los Angeles area.<br />
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An account of this year's visit, the Year of the Black Water Snake, is posted on my FINDING CHINATOWN Blogspot, <a href="http://findingchinatown.blogspot.com/">http://findingchinatown.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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