Mariana Cook

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Mariana Cook (born 1955) is an American fine art photographer specializing in black and white photography and gelatin silver prints. [1] [2]

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Her work has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery, the Bibliothèque Nationale, and the Musee d'Art Moderne. [3]

She is perhaps best known for her black and white portrait, A Couple in Chicago, which captures a young Barack and Michelle Obama in their 1996 Hyde Park apartment, and the accompanying interview for The New Yorker. [1] [4]

Work

In her 1996 interview with Barack and Michelle Obama, Cook discussed the couple's future political aspirations. At this point in his career, Barack Obama worked as a community organizer and was initiating the launch of his political career in his campaign for Illinois State Senator. [1] The photograph and interview were part of a larger series, Couples: Speaking from the Heart. [4] The article was published in 2009, thirteen years after the original interview and during Obama's presidency. The gelatin silver print is currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]

Personal life

Cook, the last surviving protégé of Ansel Adams, [5] currently resides in New York City with her husband and daughter. [6]

Publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Barack and Michelle Obama, Chicago, Illinois". Metropolitan Museum of Art . Archived from the original on 3 December 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Mariana Cook - Biography". Cook Studio. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers - Mariana Cook". Nova . PBS. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. 1 2 Cook, Mariana (19 January 2009). "A Couple in Chicago". The New Yorker . ISSN   0028-792X. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Cook, Mariana (1988). "Ansel Adams". Agni (26): 127–131. ISSN   1046-218X. JSTOR   23008783.
  6. ↑ "Mariana Cook". Artspace . Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Kino, Carol (11 August 2011). "There Can Be Beauty in Barriers" . The New York Times . Archived from the original on 1 December 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  8. ↑ Moss, Meredith (19 June 1994). "Take Some Time Out for Dads". Dayton Daily News . pp. 7C. ISSN   0897-0920.
  9. ↑ "New in Paperback". The Washington Post . 12 May 1996. pp. X.12. ISSN   0190-8286.
  10. ↑ Blonkhorn, Lois (3 May 1998). "Library has a new group of Friends". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . p. 13. ISSN   1082-8850.
  11. ↑ Moss, Meredith (10 February 2001). "Make it More than Just Another Valentine's Day". Dayton Daily News . pp. 1C. ISSN   0897-0920.
  12. ↑ "PCC to host college info day for district". Pasadena Star-News . 24 October 2005. ISSN   1087-3023. Photographer Mariana Cook will talk about her new book, 'Faces of Science...'
  13. ↑ Roberts, Kathaleen (28 March 2008). "Mysteries of the Mundane: Photographer Mariana Cook extraordinary beauty and resonance in ordinary objects". Albuquerque Journal . pp. S.1. ISSN   1526-5137.
  14. ↑ Feeney, Mark (23 August 2009). "Figured out: We don't understand the math, but can we get the mathematicians?". The Boston Globe . pp. C.10. ISSN   0743-1791.
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