ebook img

The Artist Portrait Project: A Photographic Memoir of Portraits Sessions with San Diego Artists, 2006-2016 PDF

88 Pages·2018·5.02 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview The Artist Portrait Project: A Photographic Memoir of Portraits Sessions with San Diego Artists, 2006-2016

The Artist Portrait Project Copyright © 2018 Jennifer G. Spencer All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, digital scanning, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, please address She Writes Press. Published 2018 Printed in Canada ISBN: 978-1-63152-393-9 pbk ISBN: 978-1-63152394-6 ebk Library of Congress Control Number: 2017964481 All photographs © Jennifer G. Spencer Artwork on pages 8, 10, 46, and 112 © 123rf.com Cover and interior design by Tabitha Lahr For information, address: She Writes Press 1563 Solano Ave #546 Berkeley, CA 94707 She Writes Press is a division of SparkPoint Studio, LLC. All company and/or product names may be trade names, logos, trademarks, and/or registered trademarks and are the property of their respective owners. To those who teach art and inspire others to create. To Suda House—semi-retired professor of fine art, photography at Grossmont, Community College Suda is a wonderful teacher who inspires her students to be creative with their work. Though demanding of her students, she is always supportive of a student’s approach to subject matter and the student’s learning process. To Jim Noel—retired fine art photography instructor With more photographic history and knowledge of film, film cameras, and photo chemistry than any other instructor around, it was a pleasure and privilege to learn from this master of the analog photographic processes. “ All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” —SUSAN SONTAG “ Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” —BERENICE ABBOTT Contents Foreword—The Poignancy of Portraits, Robert L. Pincus Ellen Phillips Dottie Korn-Davis Walter Wojtyla David Beck-Brown Kim Knox Carl Provder Jeffery Laudenslager Leena Hannonen Joseph Bennett Nilly Gill James T. Hubbell Deanne Sabeck Becky Guttin Nancy Kittredge Jeanne Dunn TJ Dixon and James Nelson Suda House Chris Lee Ron Tatro Polly Jacobs Giacchina Jeff Irwin Bill Mosley Jess Dominguez Mary Lynn Dominguez Robert Treat Jay Abel Kenneth Capps Helen Redman Arline Fisch William Glen Crooks James Aitchison James Watts Susan J. Osborn Jean Cornell Wheat Dan Camp Victor Ochoa Ric Todd Stuart Burton Mario Torero Cindy Zimmerman Philipp Scholz Rittermann Dana Montlack Georgia K. Laris Anne Mudge Paul Henry Grace Matthews Diane Gage Joe Nyiri Pasha Turley Epilogue—In Celebration of My Fellow Artists of San Diego: Why photograph artists? Acknowledgments About the Author

Description:
After five years’ absence from San Diego’s art community, Jennifer G. Spencer returned and began to photograph the artists she became acquainted with during her thirteen-year stint as an executive director of a visual arts organization―a project that became a ten-year journey. In The Artist Po
See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.