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Richard Sexton | |
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![]() Richard Sexton in 2014 | |
Born | Atlanta, Georgia |
Education | Emory University, San Francisco Art Institute |
Known for | Architectural Photography |
Richard Sexton (born 1954) is an American photographer, author, teacher, and architectural critic with a studio based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known for his architectural photography publications and exhibitions, which have been shown internationally. Sexton was born in 1954 in Atlanta, Georgia, and currently resides in both New Orleans, Louisiana, and Walton County, Florida. [1]
Sexton began photographing as an undergraduate at Emory University. After graduating from Emory in 1975, he moved to San Francisco and enrolled in classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. [2] In 1982, Sexton photographed "The Presence of the Past" architectural exhibition at Fort Mason Center. [3] Sexton's first photographic book project, American Style: Classic Product Design from Airstream to Zippo, was published by Chronicle Books in 1987. Sexton's second book, The Cottage Book, documented the tradition of cottage living in the San Francisco Bay area. He was featured in a 1989 New York Times article on the expanding cottage architecture trend. [4] Collaborating with architectural historian Randolph Delehanty, Sexton also authored In the Victorian Style, about San Francisco's domestic Victorian architecture.
Sexton moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1991, where he worked with Delehanty on New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, a photo essay about the interiors, furnishings, and gardens of New Orleans creatives with captions connecting them to New Orleans’ history. [5] In 1997, Sexton curated the exhibit Sidney Bechet: A World of Jazz 1897-1997 for the Bechet Centennial Committee, which commemorated the centennial of jazz musician Sidney Bechet's birth.
Sexton's Terra Incognita, a monograph of Gulf Coast landscapes, received critical acclaim, including a 2008 award from Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine [6] and a review in the Village Voice . [7] Terra Incognita was accompanied by a traveling exhibit, which was displayed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, the Polk Museum of Art, the Southeast Museum of Photography, and the Pensacola Museum of Art. [8]
Additionally, Sexton's book New Roads and Old Rivers was named "The New Must-Have Coffee Table Book" in August 2012 by Southern Living's The Daily South blog. [9] [10]
In February 2014, Sexton published his twelfth book, Creole World: Photographs of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere. The book received favorable reviews in the New York Review of Books , [11] Wall Street Journal , [12] Times-Picayune , [13] Advocate , [14] and News-Star, [15] as well as in Garden & Gun magazine's Daily Shot blog. [16] Creole World was also shown as an exhibit at the Historic New Orleans Collection before traveling to museums in Miami, FL, and Shreveport and Lafayette, LA. [17]
In 2018, the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) published Sexton's photography project Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River as a book, with accompanying essays from Paul Schneider and John H. Lawrence. In conjunction with the book's publication, the HNOC also featured an accompanying exhibit of Sexton's 100 black and white images from the project. [18] [19] [20] [21]
Sexton's photographs are included in the collections at the High Museum of Art, [22] Historic New Orleans Collection,[ citation needed ] New Orleans Museum of Art,[ citation needed ] Ogden Museum of Southern Art,[ citation needed ] Polk Museum of Art,[ citation needed ] LSU Museum of Art, [23] and the Frost Art Museum.[ citation needed ] Sexton's work has appeared in Archetype, [3] Abitare,[ citation needed ]Harper's,[ citation needed ]Louisiana Cultural Vistas,[ citation needed ]Louisiana Lens, [24] Oxford American , [25] Smithsonian Magazine , [26] Photographer's Forum,[ citation needed ] Preservation magazine ,[ citation needed ]Southern Accents magazine,[ citation needed ] and View Camera.[ citation needed ]
Sexton also taught photography at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts and at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.[ citation needed ]
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