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Seema's Show: A Life on the Left
Tuesday, October 18th
7:30pm
free
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Sara Halprin will read from and discuss her new book, Seema's Show: A
Life on the Left (University of New Mexico Press).
Seema's Show is a biography of political activist and
photographer Seema Aissen Weatherwax, whose friends included Woody
Guthrie, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston. In 1922, at the age of
seventeen, Seema Aissen got her first job drying prints in a photo-
finishing lab in Boston and joined the newly founded Young Communist
League; at thirty-seven she married the writer Jack Weatherwax and
devoted herself to supporting his work and to political activism in
Los Angeles. Widowed at seventy-nine, she began a new life in Santa
Cruz and at ninety-five had her first photographic exhibit. Her
biography, published by University of New Mexico Press, was launched
in Santa Cruz last week in time to celebrate Seema's 100th birthday.
Sara Halprin's first book was Look at My Ugly Face: Myths and
Musings on Beauty and Other Perilous Obsessions with Women's
Appearance, published by Viking in 1995 and Penguin in 1996.
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Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco
415-282-9246
http://mtbs.com
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415-282-9246
http://www.unmpress.com
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