Martina López

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Martina Lopez
Born1962 (age 6162) [1]
Seattle, WA

Martina Lopez (born 1962) is an American photographer known for her digital media works combining landscapes and 19th-century portraiture. She is currently[ when? ] a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, although she is originally from Seattle, Washington.

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Early life and education

Raised in a white middle-class neighborhood in Seattle, with seven other siblings of second generation Mexican descent, Lopez found inspiration in her personal life for her works. As a photography student at the University of Washington in 1986, she dabbled in digital images. While still in school, her father died and Lopez turned to old photo albums to reminisce, when she did this the photos awoke a curiosity and she became inspired to rewrite the narratives differently than what the photographs presented. [2]

Lopez has a Bachelor's degree from University of Washington in Seattle, and a Master's degree in 1990 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a professor of Photography in the Art History department at the University of Notre Dame. [3]

Collections

Lopez's work has been held at The Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art, in which curator David Travis writes an extensive description of her work in relation to the collection. [4]

Other museums holding her work include the Seoul Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum [1] and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Honors and awards

Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Photography Fellowship. [5]

Publications

Bibliography

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References

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  2. "Between Reason". Martina Lopez. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  3. "Martina Lopez's Professor Profile".
  4. "David Travis' Essay on Martina Lopez" (PDF).
  5. "Biography". Martina Lopez. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  6. Rosenblum, Naomi: World history of photography. New York : Abbeville Press, 1997, OCLC   605585437
  7. The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, Prestel Publishing©2010, ISBN   9783791343181
  8. 100 Ideas that Changed Photography, Laurence King Publishing (October 24, 2012), ISBN   1856697967
  9. "Steven Skopik's Article" (PDF).