Philip Perkis (born 1935) is an American photographer and educator. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship [1] and his work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, [2] Carnegie Museum of Art, [3] J. Paul Getty Museum, [4] Metropolitan Museum of Art, [5] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [6] and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [7]
Perkis was born in Boston, Massachusetts. [4] He studied painting at San Francisco Art Institute. [8]
He took up photography while in the Air Force in 1957. [9] Later he made half his living doing commercial assignments and printing for other photographers, and the other half teaching—at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. [8]
Around 1992, Perkis made photographs in Mexico on a Guggenheim Fellowship, resulting in the 2019 book Mexico. [10]
Perkis is married to the artist Cyrilla Mozenter. [11]
Perkis' work is held in the following permanent collections:
Lewis "Duke" Baltz was an American visual artist, photographer, and educator. He was an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s. His best known work was monochrome photography of suburban landscapes and industrial parks which highlighted his commentary of void within the "American Dream".
Uta Barth is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreground" in photography and bringing awareness to a viewer's attention to visual information with in the photographic frame. Her work is as much about vision and perception as it is about the failure to see, the faith humans place in the mechanics of perception, and the precarious nature of perceptual habits. Barth's says this about her art practice: “The question for me always is how can I make you aware of your own looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at." She has been honored with two National Endowments of the Arts fellowships, was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004‑05, and was a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Barth lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
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