Book signing: Jim Lommasson, Oaks Park Pentimento
Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland
Sunday, December 6, noon to 4 p.m.
http://www.ohs.org/visit-ohs/holiday-cheer.cfm
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Ampersand Reading
Oregon Historical Society Holiday Cheer
READING: Powell's City of Books
Oregon State University Press
Portland Art Museum Exhibition
Detail from Oaks Park Pentimento
Oaks Park Pentimento
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- Jim lommasson
- Jim Lommasson is a freelance photographer and writer living in Portland, Oregon. Lommasson received the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his first book, Shadow Boxers: Sweat, Sacrifice & The Will To Survive In American Boxing Gyms. In 2009 Oregon State University Press published Lommasson’s Oaks Park Pentimento: Portland’s Lost and Found Carousel. He is currently working on a book and traveling exhibition about American Veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and their lives after their return from war, called Exit Wounds: Soldiers’ Stories – Life After iraq and Afghanistan. The book will include Lommasson’s photographs, and photographs and writing by the participants. Lommasson received a 2008 Couture stipend from the New American Art Union for the Exit Wounds exhibition. He was awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) Project Grant for What We Carried, and is a 2012 Oregon Humanities Conversation Grant Recipient for his public discussion "Life after War: Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home."
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