Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography by Michelle Dunn Marsh

Seeing Being Seen is a text-based memoir by Michelle Dunn Marsh, a woman who "began reading picture books, and ended up publishing them." Anecdotes of her professional journey are punctuated by iconic photographs—gifted to the author from projects, obtained through trade, or purchased in support of non-profit arts organisations—by some of American photography’s master practitioners.

Through a personal narrative, the book explores business practices in the visual arts, the joys and challenges of the non-profit sector, and the importance of personal relationships in finding and nurturing a profession that is also a vocation.

With photographs by Robert Adams, Endia Beal, Paul Berger, Elinor Carucci, Catherine Chalmers, Adrain Chesser, William Christenberry, Bruce Davidson, Jeff Dunas, Larry Fink, Marina Font, David Hilliard, Lisa Kereszi, Isaac Layman, An-My Lê, Eirik Johnson and Daniel Carillo, Mary Ellen Mark, Jim Marshall, Graham Nash, Sylvia Plachy, Eugene Richards, Meghann Riepenhoff, Charlie Rubin, Stephen Shore, Jonathan David Smyth, Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Carrie Mae Weems, Alice Wheeler, Will Wilson, and others.

Afterword by Nancy Salguero McKay, Executive Director, Highline Heritage Museum. Featured exhibition at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, in July 2025

7.4375 x 9.4375 inches vertical; 44 duotone and color plates and 41 illustrations; 176 pages; hardcover with acetate jacket

ISBN: 978-1-7356423-2-1