Strong Silent Type Press ~ New Mexico
(Fred Hagstrom)

Fred Hagstrom: “I come to book arts through printmaking. After many years of working in traditional print formats, I have gravitated to working in the book form because I like the clarity of working with specific content, being directed by a story. My work varies in style as I try to find the right approach to each story.

“At the same time that I have moved more into book arts, I have helped to build an artist’s book collection at my school, Carleton College. I think that the highest honor any of these books can have is if they are helpful or insightful to students, having a long life in teaching collections.”

Carleton College News, Article by Erica Helgerud

Collaborations with Greg Hewitt
Nuclear testing books
Poetry with illustrations bookworks

The Blue and The Red
Fred Hagstrom
[Albuquerque, New Mexico]: Strong Silent Type Press, 2024. Edition of 23.

15" x 11'; 28 pages. Printed in relief and silkscreen. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "’The Blue and the Red’ uses archival photographs from the January 6th attack on the capitol, coupled with comments by the Capitol Police, convicted rioters and politicians who spoke in support of the attack. Much of the text comes from congressional or court testimony, while the quotes from politicians come from media sources."

“I could have lost my life that day, but as soon as I recover from my injuries I will continue forward and proudly serve my country and the capitol police.” ~Aquilino Gonell

“Those were people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law.” Senator Ron Johnson “I truly do. Like the fact that those senators and congressmen were in fear for their lives.”
~ Brandon Fellows, his statement in court

“The Blue and The Red” is Hagstrom’s second book on the events of January 6th. The first book “January 6” is now out of print. “The Blue and The Red” is dedicated to Aquillino Gonell , U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Gonell is an emigrant from the Dominican Republic and a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq, Gonell said rioters called him a "traitor" as they attacked him.
$800

Fire Flood Drought
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2022.
Edition of 18 + 2 color AP.

7.5” x 13”; 24 pages. Printed in color intaglio. Relief printed end pages. Bound in cloth with image and title on front board. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "''Fire Flood Drought' is a wordless book with a series of images showing the damages of climate change. It is intended as a kind of meditation, contemplating the range of issues created by our changing natural environment.”
$600

COVID Nurse
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2021. Edition of 20 + 3 AP.

14.5 x 14.75"; 30 pages. Printed in relief from laser cut blocks Drum leaf binding. Numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon. Images and text reference documented on colophon. page.

Fred Hagstrom: "'I did this book as a tribute to the medical workers who have given so much, and suffered so much, during this pandemic. I interviewed nurses and also found text from videos that were available to the public."

Text quotes from COVID nurses:

If you’re already at the max level of support that you can give, and their oxygen levels are dropping, there is really not much you can do except just let the family know. And can you imagine holding up an iPad to somebody who is intubated, really sick, and hearing their family tell them goodbye? Absolutely heartbreaking. Tears are coming down your face. You’re human. This sucks.

For the first year and a half that I was there I didn’t have a single patient die on my shift. And then COVID happened, and it seemed like everybody was dying. It was just a lot of death. On top of that, everybody was isolated in general. All of your support systems you had set up for the stressful job you were going into weren’t there anymore.

$1,000

Pipeline
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2021. Edition of 15.

14 x 19.5"; 26 pages including pastedowns. Printed in relief from laser cut blocks. Verdana font. Annigoni paper. Drum leaf binding. Bound in illustrated boards with cloth spine. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "'Pipeline' documents the ongoing protests against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline that will take tar sands oil from Canada to Superior Wisconsin. It is actually a new line along a new route, leaving the old pipeline in the ground. The line crosses land that is held by tribes without honoring treaty rights. It is seen as a threat to the sources of water in northern Minnesota, including the Mississippi and numerous wetlands and streams in the Lake Superior watershed. Tribes are also concerned about the effects of possible spills on wild rice beds. The oil from this line will greatly add to emissions."
$1,000 (Last 4 copies)

The Second Coming
By W. B. Yeats
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2010. Edition of 20.

11.25 x 14.5"; 24 pages. Printed from polymer plates on BFK Rives Gray. Font is Myriad Pro. Three-color intaglio prints (the rectangular images) by Hagstrom from plastic plates applied to the base paper with chine-collé. Metal engravings by Gillespie (the round images) are printed in color then applied chine-collé to the base sheet of paper. Chine-collé paper is Iwaki. Bound in cloth-covered boards with a circular metal engraving (by Gillespie) on the front cover.

Strong Silent Type Press: "The Second Coming is based on the poem by William Butler Yeats. The book contains five hand engraved intaglio prints by Oscar Gillespie, and five intaglio prints by Fred Hagstrom. ...Yeats' text is about moments of great change in the world, evoking images from the Middle East and the beginning of Christianity. We chose this text because we think it is a beautiful poem, but also quite significant at this point in time, still close to the millennium, and at a time of violent change in the Middle East. We chose not to do a literal illustration of the images from the poem, but instead hope that we have served the text well through our own interpretation of it."

Fred Hagstrom: "Each of us tried in our own ways to respond to the poem. Neither of us wanted to do illustration in the sense of actually depicting a visual image from the poem. ... I like a kind of very open response to the text in which you can still relate the images to the text. … Oscar and I discussed a little bit the fact that his son has served in the Middle East during this time, and I certainly feel that the text – moments of great change, the ideas of changes at the end of important time periods, along with how much of the poem invokes images from the Middle East – none of this can be separated from the current wars there."
$700 (Last Copy)

Testing
(book one)
By Fred Hagstrom
[Albuquerque, New Mexico:] Strong Silent Type Press, 2023. Edition of 20.

8 x 10"; 30 pages. Printed in intaglio from polymer plates. Printed on Anigoni papers. Ariel Rounded MT Bold for text font. Codex binding with cloth boards. Illustrated pastedowns. Includes bibliography with data and photo sources. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "''This book is about the experience of the ‘nuclear vets’, service members exposed to radiation during nuclear bomb testing."

Introduction: “Between 1945 and 1980, the US, USSR, UK, France, and China carried out more than 500 atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons totaling the explosive equivalent of 440 megatons of TNT. These tests injected radioactive material into the atmosphere, much of which were widely dispersed before being deposited as fallout. Cancer investigators have been studying the health effects of radioactive fallout for decades.

“The US conducted 196 atmospheric tests, with 86 in Nevada. The largest in the US was the Hood test on July 5, 1957, detonated from a balloon at 15,00 feet and 74 kilotons.”

Excerpts: “Government figures estimate between 400,000 and 550,000 American military personnel participated in a variety of nuclear tests between 1946 to 1992.

“The service members were told to never speak of their experience in the nuclear tests- even to each other or to close family. It could be punishable as treason

“Darrel Robertson, Army – ‘As I placed those gloves over my eyes and sat there and when it went off, I thought, this is odd, I think I see the bones in my fingers.’

“Jim Dangerfield, Army - We were just like an experiment animal that you’d use in a lab. And I think a lot of my lumps and that, these nodules I have had taken out of my body is due to that. I’ve had more than 30 taken out. They knew everything that was gonna happen and what danger was involved in it, and they are just hoping you all die before they have to do anything.”
$700

Testing (Book Two): Downwinders.
By Fred Hagstrom
[Albuquerque, New Mexico]: Strong Silent Type Press, 2023. Edition of 22.

13 “x 13.5”; 28 pages. Printed in relief. Ariel Rounded MT Bold Font. Drum leaf binding.{Relief printed free end pages and pastedowns. Relief covers with cloth spine. Signed and numbered by the artist. Sources noted in colophon.

Fred Hagstrom: "’Testing: Book Two Downwinders’ documents the experiences of residents of the Southwest who were exposed to radiation from 126 atomic bombs detonated at the Nevada test site from 1951 to 1963."

Introduction text: “Radiation from the tests affected the workers on the site, service members ordered to observe the tests from trenches, and citizens in neighboring states – the downwinders.”

These tests are prime examples of what has become known as collateral damage - “inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations.”

Text excerpts:“In school they showed us a film called A is for Atom, B is for Bom. I think most of us who grew up in that period, we’ve all in our own minds added C is for cancer D is for Death.”

“The only country that ever bombed our civilians with nuclear weapons was our government. We killed our own. They just assumed we were all cowboys and Indians and a bunch of Mormons out here, and that we didn’t matter.”

“You would grab hold of a sheep to move in into a corral or a little pen, and the hide- the wool, the skin, everything, would just pull right off of them. Just like they had been baked in a microwave.”
$700

His Small Self Constant, Variable
By Greg Hewett
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2008. Edition of 20.

11 x 13"; 18 pages. Intaglio images from plastic plate in three colors. Text printed letterpress from polymer plates. Base paper Rives Gray. Images applied chine collé on Iwaki paper. Codex binding. Black cloth covered boards with intaglio print on front board.

Poetry by Greg Hewett; 10 images by Fred Hagstrom.
$700 (Last Copy)

Echo
By Greg Hewett
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2007. Edition of 12.

11 x 10"; 15 pages. Text printed letterpress from polymer plates. Intaglio images printed in three colors from plastic plates on full page. Codex binding. Cloth-covered boards with print on front board. Printing assistants: Megan Fitz and Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas.

As when a few sharp grains of sand strike
your cheek, land on your iris,
words become so small, ...

$600 (Last Copy)

First Light
By Greg Hewett
St. Paul, Minnesota: [Strong Silent Type Press], 2005. Edition of 19.

7.75 x 12"; 30 pages.16 block prints (relief engraved images) printed in silver from plastic plates by Fred Hagstrom. The prints are produced with a technique like wood engraving, but done on polystyrene, a hard plastic, rather than word. Hagstrom was "one of the first to promote use of plastic for engraving." The images are carved into the plastic with engraving tools — a burin and half-tone rake. Text printed from set type in brown ink. Printed on handmade paper. Bound in black paper covered illustrated boards with black cloth spine. Cover relief printed from etched copper plate (the lines that would be black in an intaglio print are white and the surface or raised portion is white) with 2.5 x 3" block print image tipped on front board. Codex binding with hard cover and black cloth spine. Printing, binding, papermaking by Molly Kent and Jesse Trentadue.

Two poems by Greg Hewett with image by Hagstrom: "Five Appearances of the Noumenon" and "Night-Blooming Cereus."

you appear last in a helix of snow
intricate geometries ticking
without synchrony ...

$350 (Last Copy)

Junked
By Greg Hewett
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2005. Edition of 20.

9.5 x 6.25"; 24 pages. Full-page images printed intaglio in three colors from plastic plates by Fred Hagstrom on BFK Rives. Text letterpress from handset type. Signature hardcover binding. Bound in maroon cloth covered boards with intaglio image on front board. Printing assistance by Molly Kent.

Poem by Greg Hewett accompanied with images by Fred Hagstrom.

Fred Hagstrom: "Greg and I discuss the basic theme of each next book, then work fairly independently before I try to connect images to words in an appropriate manner."

junked by the invisible world
the eye concentrates on aphids
                        swarming slow-mo under maroon velvet
                        leaves of coleus on the window-sill ...

$400 (Last Copy)

1918
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2020. Edition of 19.

13" x 14"; 34 pages. Printed in silkscreen. Drum-leaf binding. Numbered. Signed by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "During 2018 I was surprised that there was so little commemoration of the 1918 flu. The 2020 pandemic changed that.

"This book includes statistics and personal letters from the 1918 Spanish Flu, along with images from that pandemic. The disease killed more than 650,00 people in the U.S. and the estimated death total world-wide was as high as 100 million. In contrast, the First World War killed 10-12 million."

Excerpt:
The entire school stopped its regular activities and devoted itself absolutely to the care of the sick. Out of 250 cases we lost a comparatively few. Among these was your daughter.
                                                    ~ Yakima Indian Agency superintendent

(SOLD/Out of Print)

BRAVO
Text by Fred Hagstrom and Joel Weisberg
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2016. Edition of 31.

14 x 20"; 52 pages. Printed in relief and silkscreen. Three color intaglio cover. Printed on Frankfurt Smooth paper. Geneva type font. Text by Fred Hagstrom and Joel Weisberg. Design and printing by Fred Hagstrom. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "Bravo is the about the legacy of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. The Castle Bravo test in 1954, along with 8 years of previous nuclear tests, left the islands with terrible
problems of nuclear contamination. Islanders have suffered removal from their homes, and high rates of cancers and birth defects. The U.S. government knowingly relocated them to contaminated islands."

Further Comments: "Most of the quotes come from interviews in two films – Nuclear Savage and Half Life. Some of the quotes come from articles my friend in physics found from science journals.

"The images are carved into plastic plates and printed relief. The cover is intaglio, printed from 3 collagraph plates. The end pages are relief, each printed from 4 relief plates. The only silkscreen images are for the title page and the colophon. The text is printed in silkscreen over a base of relief printing from wood. The main pages with the images each have 4 layers--3 in stages of gray, plus the black key block."
(SOLD/ Out of Print)

Call & Response
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 1989. Edition of 3.

8 loose prints contained in a 30 x 24" cloth-covered portfolio. The prints are each 29.5" tall and vary in width from 23.5 to 21". This is also a print (the 9th) on front cover containing the title. Processes: woodcut; collagraph; lithography.

Fred Hagstrom: "I was working that summer with a good student who was African American. She and I were both interested in work about social issues. We did not collaborate, but we worked together every day. 'Call and Response' is about racial issues. To greatly simplify things, the theme is that people of color have had to go through much strife, and yet they have added so much to American culture."
(SOLD/Out of Print)

Can't Win
Text by Charles Bukowski
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2009. Edition of 18.

15.5 x 22"; 24 unnumbered pages. Twelve large format woodcut images printed in three colors. Text printed in silkscreen. Font: Corbel. Images and text design by Fred Hagstrom. Bound in cloth-covered boards with a woodcut (9.5" tall) that spans the middle of both front and back boards.

Fred Hagstrom: "This book uses the text of a single poem by Charles Bukowski 'Lost.' Single lines of the poem are paired with large portrait heads that are carved in a rough drawing style. The intent was to emphasize the stark quality of the text.

"The poem is about a general sense of frustration and lack of power, but it is impossible to read it in our current context without thinking about issues such as our current wars. That might be our military wars, our war on drugs, or any of our collective endeavors that seem to be bound up in such a sense of frustration or futility. I am sure one could also read it as a sense of personal futility as well, but for some reason it evoked in me a stronger impression of those public struggles that seem to go on with little hope of resolution."

Hagstrom has transformed 'Lost' into 'Can't Win.' The move from description of circumstances to expression of futility is telling.

Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) poet, novelist, and short story writer. "Lost" is a selection from Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955 - 1973 by Charles Bukowski, reprinted here by permission of Harper Collins.
(SOLD/Out of Print)

deeply honored
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2010.
Second edition, Edition of 26.

11 x 15.25"; 28 pages. Printed in silkscreen on Rives grey. Drum-leaf binding. Cloth covered boards with a silk-screen image of barbed wire.

Images from the period of the war were obtained from the Carleton College and the Densho archives. Text is taken from letters in the Carleton archives. The visual quality of the original letters and documents required they be transcribed for this printing. The Shigemura letters were printed in Lucinda Handwriting, a font that approximated the handwriting of Mrs. Shigemura. The Carleton letters and memos have been transcribed into Monaco. The descriptive text is printed in Verdana.

Fred Hagstrom: "deeply honored is a story about the internment of Japanese Americans during the war. Carleton College took in several students under scholarship in order to get them out of internment camps. This was part of the Student Relocation Council, organized by John Nason, President of Swarthmore College.

"Carleton's first such student was Frank Shigemura, who enlisted after one great year at Carleton. He was killed in France. After the war, his parents were released and returned to Seattle. They appreciated what Carleton had done for their son, so they began a string of contributions to the College. This added up over the years, until the College President discovered that they were living in poverty and were giving a large portion of their income to the school. He tried (without success) to discourage them from any more contributions. Carleton has a scholarship in his name, and a room in his honor in our memorial hall. When his parents died, they left anything they had to Carleton.

"The book is about this tremendous family and what they did in the face of one of the great injustices of our history. deeply honored is a phrase from Mrs Shigemura. The text is from archival letters, including those of Mrs. Shigemura to the school.

"A sample of the text – a letter from Mrs. Shigemura to a Carleton Dean: We deeply feel honored in having Frank's picture in a memorial booklet honoring Carleton College gold star men. It is hard to realize that Frank will never return. I can only say that I am grateful that he was able to serve his country, God and us all. I shall always be proud to be the mother of a true American. Frank has often mentioned in his letters about the fair treatment and kindness he received from both the faculty and the students of Carleton College. I cannot find words adequate enough to fully express our thanks. We are ever and ever so grateful to you all."

It's difficult not to be over-the-top in praising this presentation of this story. If you can read it and not be moved, we occupy different realities. [Vamp & Tramp]

Because of the great interest in this subject Hagstrom decided to create this second edition. Fred Hagstrom: "All of the images and text are the same, but the colors are quite different. I think I prefer the 2nd edition."

Hagstrom has "hopes that some new fund raising for his scholarship fund is in the works."
(SOLD)

Kill Box
By Joanna Rawson
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2008. Edition of 19.

12.5 x 15.5 x 2"; 22 pages. Text in Veranda printed from polymer plates. Intaglio images printed chine-collé by plastic plates and letterpress. Paper is BFK Rives, gray, with Iwaki for the chine-collé paper. Bound in black cloth with tipped on image on front board. Housed in a black plywood box.

Fred Hagstrom: "Text is by Joanna Rawson. Her poem is about a group of men trying to cross the border who die when they are sealed in a shipping container. I tried to use design and images to convey the claustrophobic sense of her words."

This is the first publication of Rawson's poem.
(Out of Print/SOLD)

January 6
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2021. Edition of 22.

14 x 15"; 28 pages. Printed in relief from laser cut blocks. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "'’January 6’ uses excerpts from the powerful testimony of four police officers made before congress on July 27, 2021. The images are iconic photographs from that day. The officers make clear how much they endured during that day, and after. They also make the point that people should be held accountable for having prompted or participated in the events of that day."

Text Excerpt: “Despite being outnumbered, we did our job. Every member of the House of Representatives, Senator, and staff member made it home safely. Sadly, as a result of that day, we lost officers- some really good officers. We are not asking for medals or even recognition. We simply want accountability and justice. For most people, January 6 happened for a few hours that day. But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended.”
(SOLD/Out of Print)

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Paradise Lost
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2012. Edition of 24.

12.75 x 19"; 84 pages. Printed in silkscreen on Iwaki and St. Arnaud papers. Photo sources are from archival newsreels. Ariel typeface. Codex binding. Bound quarter cloth with silkscreen covers.

Grainy photographs taken from old newsreels are interspersed with Hagstrom's expressive prints and snippets of text in this powerful work about the ignorance and arrogance of the US in conducting nuclear tests in the Marshall islands.

Fred Hagstrom: "Paradise Lost is about nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands conducted by the US in the 40's and 50's. It focuses on the first two explosions on Bikini Atoll in 1946. The Bikinians were told that testing the bomb was essential to prevent future wars. They had no way of knowing that they would not be able to return to their island, and how greatly their lives would be affected by the tests. Bikini is still deemed unsafe for their return. The tests also exposed large numbers of service members to dangerous levels of radiation – the first of our atomic veterans. Many of these sailors spent much of their lives in treatment for diseases related to their exposure."

From Paradise Lost: Operation Crossroads was the beginning of the nuclear test program, begun on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in July 1946. The fourth and fifth atomic explosions in history were detonated there in the Bikini Lagoon. A target fleet of 95 vessels was placed in the lagoon to test the power of the bombs against traditional navy ships. The Bikini islanders were moved to the island of Rongerik. 40,000 troops took part in the tests under the supervision of the U.S. Navy.

There is nothing in my life that I want more than to go back home to Bikini. The reason I can't go there is because the Americans tell me there is poison there. I don't understand this. I am asking America to take us home.

I don't recall in our whole time there any words of radioactivity being spoken of … not to us, the crew members. We were never told about radioactive exposure. In fact, we didn't know what the word was.

Information from the Bikini website: "At the time of the evacuation of Bikini Atoll in 1946 there were 196 natives living on the island. As of 2012, 34 still survive. At this time [2012] the people of Bikini remain scattered throughout the Marshall Islands and the world as they wait for the cleanup of Bikini to begin in earnest, mostly due to the fact that the money they have received from the U.S. government is not adequate to fund a full radiological cleanup of the entire atoll."
(SOLD)

Passage
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2016.
Second edition of 11 + 1 variant.

16 x 16.25"; pages. Silkscreen on Rives paper. Font: Myriad Pro. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "Passage uses images and texts from two historical books that were important for building opposition to the slave trade: An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade by Thomas Clarkson, 1788, and Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Person of Color by A.Mott, 1837. Both books presented stark evidence of the cruelty of the slave trade. The Clarkson diagrams showing the conditions of how people were transported for the middle passage was a particularly important visual symbol for the abolition movement. Passage combines the diagram images with archival photographs of people who lived part of their lives as slaves."

Story of Jack: "Well, Jack, you back is all covered with scars and sores, and I see no place to begin to whip."

Story of Lott: "About the year 1813, his wife died, and shortly after, he bought himself and two little children for $350."
(SOLD)

Returning Home
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2018. Edition of 29.

19 x 14"; 60 pages. Text printed in Geneva font. Silkscreen prints. Drum leaf binding. Cloth over boards with silkscreened cover. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Text source material: Interviews with Louise and Debbie Kashino; Densho Archive interviews; Kash, a film by Vince Matsudaira; Fighting for America: Nisei Soldiers by Laurence Matsuda and Matt Sakai. Images sources: Kashino family; Densho Archive; National Archives and Records Administration.

Fred Hagstrom: "Returning Home is the story of Shiro Kashino. He left the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho to join the 442nd, the segregated unit of Japanese– Americans who fought in Italy and France. He was a leader and received numerous medals. He was unfairly court-martialed, falsely accused. When he returned home, he and the other veterans of Japanese descent were denied membership in local veteran's organizations, so they started the Nisei Veterans Committee in Seattle. His mates from the 442nd felt that he had been mistreated, and they began a long campaign to get his rank and reputation restored. This finally happened, but only in the months after his death."

Text excerpts:

"After the war was over we had to guard some German prisoners. I remember looking down on this compound, and it reminded me of camp. This was exactly what they had built for us in the deserts of Idaho." Shiro Kashino

“If this application can be reconsidered and the stigma of a court-martial of dubious circumstances erased, we will be grateful knowing that justice has been served and my husband vindicated. If the application is once again denied, my only consolation will be the fact that he died not knowing that he had lost his last battle.” Louise Kashino

Returning Home was the result of an earlier book by Hagstrom – Deeply Honored. In doing research for the earlier volume Hagstrom became interested in the Japanese American soldiers that fought in World War II and the internment of Japanese –Americans in the US. When in Seattle in the Spring of 2016 Hagstrom met with the Nisei Veterans Committee. There he learned about Shiro Kashino.
(SOLD/Out of print)

The Rose of No Man's Land
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2018. Edition of 28.

13 x 20"; 54 pages. Printed in silkscreen. Font: Lucinda Calligraphy. Hard case binding with cloth over boards. Signed and numbered by the artist. Text is from The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918 by Peter Reese, Allen and Unwin Press (2008).

Fred Hagstrom: "This book is printed in the 100th anniversary of the final year of the First World War. It is in honor of nurses who served in that conflict. It highlights the incredible dedication and sacrifice of the women who served. It contains archival photographs of nurses, soldiers, and images from combat. The text is taken from the writings of the nurses."
(SOLD/Out of Print)

So many many
By Charles Bukowski
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2005. Edition of 20.

11 x 14.5"; 40 pages. Printed letterpress from polymer plates. Five intaglio images in three colors by Fred Hagstrom and five intaglio images in two colors by Graham Fransella (Melbourne, Australia). Codex binding in maroon cloth with detail from a Fransella intaglio image on front cover.

Fred Hagstrom: "This book is based on a poem by Charles Bukowski, used with permission. The poem is about a sort of vacant feeling as we look around us at people we run into every day, and we tried to use images that helped to convey that feeling. The collaboration with an Australian artist came about due to my leading student trips to Australia and New Zealand every two years....

"The thing that has always mattered to me in art is narrative. In the past, I thought that telling a story required a kind of visual theater that used figures as the players. I now think that this was a narrow definition of narrative. In the art of indigenous people (Maori carving and aboriginal art from Australia) I have found a whole new way to think about a visual story. I see similar examples from different parts of the world such as Buddhist or Islamic art. Things that appear to be abstract can actually be a very specific, poetic narrative. You can learn to read these stories, and following the often difficult path of this reading can lead to a powerful kind of understanding. I have had only glimpses of this."
(SOLD)

Testing: Book Three Navajo Uranium Miners
By Fred Hagstrom
[Albuquerque, New Mexico]: Strong Silent Type Press, 2024. Edition of 15.

15 x11.5”; 28 pages. Printed in relief. Font is Ariel. Quotes used with permission from the Navajo Nation Museum. Signed and numbered by the artist. Bound in illustrated boards with cloth spine.

Fred Hagstrom: “’Testing: Book Three- Navajo Uranium Miners’ tells the stories of the Navajo miners, and their families, as they dealt with the health consequences of their work in the mines. The quotes are all from the miners and their family members, documenting the poor health conditions in the mines, and the experiences of living close to the mines and the tailings piles. Quotes were used with permission from the Navajo Nation Museum.”

Quotes from miners:

Dan Benally: “My throat feel sore around here. It's like this. We use to drink the water down in the mines. The water use to run off the ceiling of the mines and we drink that. We use put containers under the water.”

Dorothy Mae Zohannie: “She (the doctor) told my dad that it's the uranium, you know, that the coughing up blood is from uranium. But this was never recorded into his medical records. And also his own X-ray were all destroyed… which we never knew about after they have been dead for, after they haven't been dead for five years.”

LeRoy Deal: “The only thing we got was earplugs. What was going down our throats, they did nothing about. We drank water that ran out of the cracks in the rocks. It must have been uranium water.”

George Tutt: “When work stopped at the end of the shift, they just got out of the mines and went straight home. They were not told to wash or anything like that.

“It was spread out, pure yellow. We transported it in wheelbarrows. It was called uranium. Our clothes we worked in were all washed at home. So they were exposed to it.”
(SOLD/Out of Print)

your life in two's
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2008. Edition of 20.

4.25 x 4.5"; 24 pages. Intaglio,chine-collé, letterpress. Text and images by Fred Hagstrom. Numbered but unsigned.

Fred Hagstrom: "This is a small book and short text about the rhythm of breathing in our lives."

Text excerpt:

your first breath is an inhale
your last breath is an exhale

(SOLD/Out of Print)

Watching Bones
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2020. Edition of 10.

13.5 x 13"; 26 pages. Printed in silkscreen. Drum leaf binding with cloth spine and silk screen boards. Pastedowns and endpapers silk screen of skeletons on red background. Research reference "Bone Rooms" by Samuel J. Redman. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "This book is about the large number of human remains held by U.S. museums. They are predominantly the remains of Native Americans and were often acquired through dubious circumstances. Estimates place to the total number of human remains in collections as high as 500,000."

Text Excerpt 1: “The American Indian must be assigned a lower position on the human scale than has been believed heretofore.” George Ortis at the Army Medical Museum.

Text Excerpt 2: “I disinterred the heads and sent the skulls to the Army Medical Museum, as they showed the so-called explosive action of a bullet passing through a skull.” William Henry Corbusier (1844-1930) army surgeon.
(SOLD/Out of Print)

The White Earth
By Fred Hagstrom
St. Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2020. Edition of 24.

13.5 x 18.5"; 34 pages. Printed in intaglio and laser cut woodcut. Bound in cloth boards with image on cover. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "This is the story of how one of the largest reservations in Minnesota saw the land held by native people reduced to a fraction of what had been promised to them."

Wikipedia, as of 6/4/2020: "The White Earth Reservation was created on March 19, 1867, during a treaty signing in Washington, DC. Ten Ojibwe Indian chiefs met with President Andrew Johnson at the White House to negotiate the treaty. The chiefs Wabanquot (White Cloud), a Gull Lake Mississippi Chippewa, and Fine Day, of the Removable Mille Lacs Indians, were among the first to move with their followers to White Earth in 1868.

"The reservation originally covered 1,300 square miles (3,400 km²). Much of the community's land was improperly sold or seized by outside interests, including the US Federal government, in the late 19th century and early 20th century. According to the Dawes Act of 1887, the communal land was to be allotted to individual households recorded in tribal rolls, for cultivation in subsistence farming. Under the act, the remainder was declared surplus and available for sale to non-Native Americans. The Nelson Act of 1889 was a corollary law that enabled the land to be divided and sold to non-Natives."
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White Riots
By Fred Hagstrom
St . Paul, Minnesota: Strong Silent Type Press, 2021. Edition of 12 variants.

19 x 13"; 34 pages. Printed in relief from laser cut woodblocks. Silkscreen cover. Drum leaf binding. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Fred Hagstrom: "'White Riots' documents the violence by white mobs in several black communities from 1918 to 1921: Tulsa Oklahoma, East St Louis Missouri, Chicago Illinois, and Elaine Arkansas. In each case, an incident led to an uprising that decimated African American communities with killings and destruction of property. There were numerous similar incidents across the country at this time. While the recent anniversary has brought attention to the Tulsa massacre, many of the other similar events are less well known."
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