{"id":20116,"date":"2016-06-01T07:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=20116"},"modified":"2016-06-01T07:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T15:54:27","slug":"melody-owen-resident-scholar-talk-tree-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/06\/01\/melody-owen-resident-scholar-talk-tree-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Melody Owen Resident Scholar Talk: Tree Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/06\/01\/melody-owen-resident-scholar-talk-tree-rings\/mowen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20122\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/files\/2016\/06\/mowen.jpg\" alt=\"mowen\" width=\"660\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/mowen.jpg 660w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/mowen-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/mowen-624x608.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join us on June 16 at 2:00 in the Valley Library&#8217;s Willamette Rooms for a wonderful talk by Artist and Independent Scholar Melody Owen.<\/p>\n<p>Her\u00a0talk &#8220;Poetic dendrochronology and human\/tree portraiture in historical photographs from the Pacific Northwest&#8221; will be an exploration of human\/tree portraiture in early 20th century photography culled from the Gerald W. Williams Collection. This genre includes photographs usually taken to emphasize the tree\u2019s grand majesty, beauty, strangeness and\/or size compared to the relative smallness of a person, as well as those that show off the human\u2019s bravado and skills in cutting them down.<\/p>\n<p>The title is in reference to the rings inside a tree\u2019s trunk that indicate its age and also to the type of picture in which people hold hands and form a ring around a tree, sometimes to show its size and sometimes to protect it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/06\/01\/melody-owen-resident-scholar-talk-tree-rings\/loggers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20125\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/files\/2016\/06\/loggers.jpg\" alt=\"loggers\" width=\"1546\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/loggers.jpg 1546w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/loggers-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/loggers-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/loggers-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3292\/files\/2016\/06\/loggers-624x409.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1546px) 100vw, 1546px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/melodyowen.net\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/melodyowen.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on June 16 at 2:00 in the Valley Library&#8217;s Willamette Rooms for a wonderful talk by Artist and Independent Scholar Melody Owen. Her\u00a0talk &#8220;Poetic dendrochronology and human\/tree portraiture in historical photographs from the Pacific Northwest&#8221; will be an exploration of human\/tree portraiture in early 20th century photography culled from the Gerald W. 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