This text-based memoir of Michelle Dunn Marsh’s life and work as a book designer, cultural producer, and publisher is punctuated by photographs—gifted to her from projects, obtained through trade, or purchased in support of non-profit arts organisations—by some of American photography’s master practitioners over the last twenty-five years.

Portraits of her by Stephen Shore, Larry Fink, Sylvia Plachy, Will Wilson, and others punctuate a loosely chronological narrative exploring the author’s evolution of seeing, the influences of family, education, geographies, mentors, and photography itself on that process, and her commitment to the printed book as a vessel of future histories.

Seeing Being Seen evolved out of and expands upon an exhibition of the same name at the Highline Heritage Museum in 2019, and includes an afterword by the museum's director, Nancy Salguero McKay.

Michelle Dunn Marsh (b. 1973, Seattle) is the co-founder and publisher of Minor Matters Books. Since 1994 she has professionally engaged with the artform of photography through the creation of over one hundred publications, curation and placement of exhibitions, and development of numerous public programs. She has held staff positions with Aperture Foundation (New York), Chronicle Books (San Francisco), and Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), and consulted with the estate of legendary music photographer Jim Marshall, among others. She was a tenured professor in graphic design, and has lectured internationally on photography and visual book publishing. She holds a master’s degree in publishing from Pace University, and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College.

Nancy Salguero McKay (b. 1979, Mexico City) is the executive director of Highline Heritage Museum in Burien, Washington. She was selected as one of the most fabulous people in Washington state in 2020. McKay has taught in the Museum Studies program at the University of Washington, and has been recognized for her leadership in museum and heritage fields.

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