Joan liffring zug bourret biography for kids
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Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret has seen so much change in Iowa through her 87 years, often through her eyes or through a camera lens.
She was a pionjär in photography and journalism in the early 1950’s, capturing the sentiment of the times but also the moments of life not often chronicled.
Yet Joan still holds a hand in publishing through
Penfield Books
, which she founded nearly four decades ago.
“I wanted to control printing and I have rigidly controlled it, autocratically, ever since,” Liffring-Zug Bourret said amid her company’s latest offerings. Penfield has a strong foothold in ethnic books, often with Iowa or Midwestern heritage. The Penfield website talks about a focus on cookbooks with a slant towards “Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Irish, Norwegian, Polish, Scottish, Slovak, Swedish and Ukrainian descent”.
Penfield’s books, which are often made to be pocket-sized, are all over, especially in museums and gift shops. Liffring-Zug Bour
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What are you reading: “Pictures & People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice”
Title: “Pictures & People: A Search for Visual Truth and Social Justice”
Author: Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret
About the author: Joan lives in Iowa City, where she and her husband, Dwayne, own and operate Penfield Books. Joan has been a photographer for more than 60 years, and her work has been published and collected widely.
Synopsis: The memoir contains more than 130 black-and-white photographs, some of them iconic images of women's roles in the last half of the 20th century. Also included are the groundbreaking photos of the birth of Joan's first son, a photo essay hailed as one of the most important of the 1950s. The book relates the author's personal memories, including the civil rights movement and efforts to integrate housing and schools in Cedar Rapids.
Reviewer:
Ron Moore of Cedar Rapids is a risk management consultant. A former three-term Cedar Rapids school board member
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Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret
American photographer (1929–2022)
Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret | |
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Liffring at age 23 | |
| Born | Joan Liffring (1929-02-20)February 20, 1929 Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | October 16, 2022(2022-10-16) (aged 93) Solon, Iowa, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Book publisher, photographer |
Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret (February 20, 1929 – October 16, 2022) was an American photographer, book publisher, and civil rights activist. On April 6, 1951, she became the first woman to photograph herself giving birth.[1][2]
She contributed more than 500,000 negatives from the 1940s to 2007 to the archives of the State Historical kultur of Iowa and has been called Iowa's premier documentary photographer of the 20th century.[3] In 1996 she was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame. She founded Penfield Books in 1979. Penfield Books has published more than 110 titles.[4]
Bourret's autobiography, Pictures and People: A