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Christian Patterson (actor)
Christian Patterson (born 1972, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S.) is an American photographer known for his ''Sound Affects'' and ''Redheaded Peckerwood'' series which have received solo exhibitions and been published as books. ''Redheaded Peckerwood'' was awarded the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award in 2012 and Patterson has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Vevey International Photography Award. Biography In 2002, Patterson moved from Brooklyn, New York to Memphis, Tennessee to work with the photographer William Eggleston. In 2005, he completed his first project, ''Sound Affects,'' a collection of color photographs that explore Memphis as a visual and musical place, and use light and color as visual analogues to sound and music. In 2008, a ''Sound Affects'' book was published by Edition Kaune, Sudendorf. Also in 2005, Patterson began working on his second project, ''Redheaded Peckerwood'', which is loosely inspired by the late 1950s killing spree of Charles Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin
Fond du Lac () is a city in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 44,678 at the 2020 census. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Fond du Lac United States metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Fond du Lac County (2020 population: 104,154). Fond du Lac is the 348th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the United States. History "Fond du Lac" is French for the "bottom" or the "farthest point" "of the lake," so named because of its location at the bottom (south end) of Lake Winnebago. Native American tribes, primarily the Winnebagos but also the Potawatomi, Kickapoo people, Kickapoo, and Mascoutin lived or gathered in the area long before European explorers arrived. Although the identity of the first European to explore the southern end of Lake Winnebago is uncertain, it was probably Claude-Jean Allouez, followed by French fur trappers. James Duane Dot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Meeks
Raymond Meeks (born 1963) is an American photographer. "Much of his work focuses on memory and place, and captures daily life with his family." He has published a number of books including ''Pretty Girls Wander'' (2011) which "chronicles his daughter's journey from adolescence to adulthood"; and ''Ciprian Honey Cathedral'' (2020), which contains symbolic, figurative photographs taken in and around a new house, and of his partner just before waking from sleep. Meeks is co-founder of ''Orchard Journal,'' in which he collaborates with others. In 2016 he received a Siskind Fellowship Grant from the Aaron Siskind Foundation and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is held in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Light Work in Syracuse, NY, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Life and work Meeks was born in Columbus, Ohio. He has lived in Providence, Rhode Island and the Catskill Mountains, New York. He once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississippi Delta
The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. The region has been called "The Most Southern Place on Earth" ("Southern" in the sense of "characteristic of its region, the American South"), because of its unique racial, cultural, and economic history. It is long and across at its widest point, encompassing about , or, almost 7,000 square miles of alluvial floodplain. Originally covered in hardwood forest across the bottomlands, it was developed as one of the richest cotton-growing areas in the nation before the American Civil War (1861–1865). The region attracted many speculators who developed land along the riverfronts for cotton plantations; they became wealthy planters dependent on the labor of enslaved African Americans, who composed the vast majority of the populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vevey International Photography Award
Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District. It is part of the French-speaking area of Switzerland. Vevey is home to the world headquarters of the international food and beverage company Nestlé, founded here in 1867. Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter in 1875, with the aid of Henri Nestlé. The English actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin resided in Vevey from 1952 until his death in 1977. History A piloti settlement existed here as early as the 2nd millennium BC. Under Rome, it was known as Viviscus or ''Vibiscum''. It was mentioned for the first time by the ancient Greek astronomer and philosopher Ptolemy, who gave it the name Ouikos. In the Middle Ages it was a station on the Via F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobuyuki Ishiki
Nobuyuki (written: , , , , , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese general, politician and Prime Minister of Japan *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese fencer *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese chief executive *, Japanese handball player *, Japanese video game developer *, Japanese gymnast *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese actor and voice actor *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese freestyle skier *, Japanese samurai *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese engineer *, Japanese samurai and ''daimyō'' *, Japanese marathon runner *, Japanese actor *, Japanese actor *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese botanist *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese pianist and composer *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese footballer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Weifenbach
Terri Weifenbach is an American fine-art photographer, living in Paris. She has published a number of books of landscape photography, often of plants and animals, gardens and parks. Her work is held in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and North Carolina Museum of Art. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Life and work Weifenbach was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978. Since then she has lived in New Mexico, California and again in Washington, D.C., and now lives in Paris. Weifenbach photographs plants and animals and "uses the richness of gardens and parks as the site for her landscape images". Bookmaking is central to her artistic practice. Parr and Badger include ''In Your Dreams'' (1997) in the second volume of ''The Photobook: A History''. She worked as a photographic printer from 1983 to 2006. She was married to John Gossage for 14 years, from 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertien Van Manen
Bertien van Manen (born 1942) is a Dutch photographer. She started her career as a fashion photographer, after having studied French and German languages and literature. Inspired by Robert Frank's ''The Americans'' she travelled around, photographing what she saw. She had her first exhibition in The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1977 and since then her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Van Manen's work is found in major public collections. Life and work Bertien van Manen started her photography career in 1974 as a fashion photographer after studying French language and literature at the University of Leiden. Inspired by Robert Frank's book ''The Americans'' (1958), van Manen switched from fashion photography to a more documentary approach, she travelled around, photographing what she saw. She uses an inexpensive snapshot camera to ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavica Perkovic
Slavica may refer to: People * Slavica Ćukteraš (born 1985), Serbian singer * Slavica Đukić (born 1960), Serbian handball player * Slavica Ecclestone (born 1958), Croatian fashion model * Slavica Jeremić (born 1957), Serbian handball player Other * * ''Slavica'' (film), a 1947 Yugoslav drama film See also * Slava (given name) Slava is a given name in Slavic countries. Slava is a common nickname for masculine Slavic names ending with "-slav", e.g. ''Vyacheslav'', ''Stanislav'', ''Yaroslav'', ''Sviatoslav'', ''Rostislav'', ''Mstislav'' or feminine Slavic names ending with ... * {{disambiguation Croatian feminine given names Serbian feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daidō Moriyama
is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine ''Provoke (magazine), Provoke''. Moriyama’s rough, unfettered photographic style makes use of sharply tilted angles, grainy textures, harsh contrasts, and blurred movements to capture the rawness of human experience as seen through the photographer’s wandering gaze. Many of his well-known works from the 1960s and 1970s are read through the lenses of post-war reconstruction and Post-occupation Japan, post-Occupation cultural upheaval. Life and work Early life and career beginnings Moriyama was born in Ikeda, Osaka, Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Osaka in 1938. After abandoning a career in design, Moriyama began to shoot photography during his early 20s using an inexpensive Canon Inc., Canon IV Sb purchased from a friend. In Osaka, Moriyama studied photography under Takeji IwamiyaAkie Moriyama (), "Moriyama Daidō" (); page 308 within ''Nihon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Jude
Ron A. Jude (born 1965) is an American photographer and educator, living in Eugene, Oregon. His photography, which "often explores the relationship between people, place, nature and memory", has been published in a number of books. Jude works as a professor of art at the University of Oregon. He has had solo exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, The Photographers' Gallery in London, and was included in a three-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago. His work is held in the collections of the George Eastman Museum; High Museum of Art, MoCP, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Ogden Museum of Southern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2019 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Life and work Jude was born in Covina, Los Angeles County, California, and raised in rural Idaho. He gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Boise State University, Boise, Idaho in 1988; participated in the American Photography Institute' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Homma
is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which kanji is used to write it. Some possible writings of the name include: *江詩 - "estuary , inlet, poem" *隆 - "prosperous noble" *喬士 - "high, boasting, samurai, gentleman" *峻 - "high, steep" *崇史 - "adore, revere, chronicler, history" *孝 - "filial piety, serve parents" *節 - "moral courage, integrity" *傑 - "hero, outstanding" Takashi can also be written in hiragana and/or katakana: *タカシ (katakana) *たかし (hiragana) People with the name *Takashi Abe (阿部 隆, born 1967), Japanese shogi player *, Japanese rugby union player *Takashi Amano (天野尚, 1954–2015), Japanese photographer, aquarist and designer *Takashi Aonishi (青西 高嗣), Japanese music artist *Takashi Asahina (朝比奈 隆, 1908–2001), Japanese conductor *, Japanese volleyball player *Takashi Fujii (藤井隆, born 1972), Japanese singer and comedian *Taka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roe Ethridge
Roe Ethridge is a postmodernist commercial and art photographer, known for exploring the plastic nature of photography – how pictures can be easily replicated and recombined to create new visual experiences. He often adapts images that have already been published, adding new, sculpted simulations of reality, or alternatively creates highly stylized versions of classical compositions, such as a still life bowl of moldy fruit which appeared on the cover of ''Vice'' magazine, or landscapes and portraits with surprising elements. After participating in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, his work has been collected by several leading public museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Tate Modern. In 2010, his work was included in the MoMA's 25th Anniversary ''New Photography'' exhibit. Biography Born in Miami, Florida, in 1969, Roe Ethridge grew up in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He attended Florida State U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
