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A survey of ground-breaking mixed-media photography, spanning a half century of innovative perspectives that push the boundaries of how we define photography.
List of contents
- Foreword (Bruce Barnes)
- Preface (Olivia Lahs-Gonzales)
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Essays
- Overcoming Constraints (Jamie M. Allen)
- Bea Nettles: Artist/Mother (Olivia Lahs-Gonzales)
- Photographic Objects/Institutional Artifacts: Bea Nettles in Context (Amy L. Powell)
- Part II. Plates and Texts
- Opening Statement (Bea Nettles)
- Plates: 1968–1975
- Mountain Dream Tarot (Bea Nettles)
- Plates: 1975–1992
- Complexities (Bea Nettles)
- Plates 1995–2011
- Gravestone Poetry (Bea Nettles)
- Plates: 2011–2015
- Closing Statement: (Bea Nettles)
- Selected Chronology (Jamie M. Allen with Bea Nettles)
- Selected Bibliography (Jamie M. Allen)
- About the Contributors
- Photography Credits
- Index
About the author
Bea Nettles began her international exhibition career in 1970 with Photography Into Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. She received two National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships, and taught for thirty years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jamie M. Allen is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum.
Olivia Lahs-Gonzales is the director of the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, Missouri.
Amy L. Powell is the curator of modern and contemporary art at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Founded in 1947 and located in Rochester, New York, the George Eastman Museum is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the earliest film archives, with major collections in photography and cinema and related technologies as well as photography books.
Summary
A survey of ground-breaking mixed-media photography, spanning a half century of innovative perspectives that push the boundaries of how we define photography.
