Preview of Enduring Spirit - 2/16

M.J. Cody & John Laursen present a preview of Northwest Photography Archive’s forthcoming book, Enduring Spirit: Photographs of Northwest Native Americans 1855 – 1928. This presentation will feature rarely seen candid photographs – images of place and activity – by lesser-known photographers, illuminating the early cultural heritage of Northwest Native Americans during this fascinating, yet, dark period in our shared history.

M.J. Cody is a writer and editor whose column “Sleeping Around the Northwest” appeared in the Sunday Oregonian travel section for more than a decade.  As a Northwest Photography Archive board member, she is assisting in photographic research, collection, and editing of the forthcoming book Enduring Spirit. She has contributed to many publications and is the author of several books, including serving as co-editor, with Mike Houck, of the acclaimed Wild in the City series; and is a former award-winning magazine art director and award-winning television writer. She has recently published Sleeping Around the Northwest, non-fiction travel tales based on essays from her Oregonian column of the same name, and Standing on the Beach, a mystery novel based in Juneau, Alaska. M.J. is currently writing a sequel to her novel; updating content and photographs for her website (mjcody.com); and helping to develop Clyde Rice’s historic home and property on the Clackamas River into a writers’ retreat (clylderice.com).

John Laursen is the managing editor of the Northwest Photography Series and in collaboration with M. J. Cody is creating the second book in the series, Enduring Spirit: Photographs of Northwest Native Americans, 1855–1928. A writer, editor, book designer, and typographer, Laursen has produced public art and high-quality books for more than four decades as the proprietor of Press-22. In 2002 he and Terry Toedtemeier, the late curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum, together founded the nonprofit Northwest Photography Archive (northwestphotography.org) to publish books of historically and artistically significant photographs of the Pacific Northwest, and the two co-authored the Archive’s inaugural volume, Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867–1957. In 2011 Laursen was the recipient of the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award, presented by Literary Arts “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.”