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

88 Pages·2018·5.02 MB·English

by  Jennifer G. Spencer

The Artist Portrait Project

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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