Artistic and Life-Like with Tim Greyhavens

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Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is delighted to welcome author, photographer, histoarian and Folio member Tim Greyhavens for a presentation on his book Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900.

This is the first book-length exploration of nineteenth-century photography in Washington State. Each chapter features intriguing facts, stories, and images that bring to life this rich part of photographic history from the territory's earliest days to the state's emergence as an economic power in the twentieth century.

The book features 203 photographs & illustrations, chronological histories by decade and thematic studies of landscapes, portraits, and images of Native Peoples. In addition to tracing the development of Washington photography in a direct chronological timeline, the author explores key themes that illuminate the social, economic, and physical aspects of the state's growth as seen through dozens of rarely seen photographs.

As a latecomer to the Union, Washington and photography…