Donald E. Camp (born 1940
in
Meadville, Pennsylvania
Meadville is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The city is within of Erie and within of Pittsburgh. It was the first permanent settlement in Northwestern Pennsylvania. The population was 13,388 at the 2010 censu ...
) is an American
artist
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,
photographer, and
professor emeritus of
photography at
Ursinus College in
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
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. Camp holds both a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Background
The Bachelor ...
and a
Master of Fine Arts
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is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
from
Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
Camp is notable for his
portraits that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face, particularly those of
African American men. Camp's unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes.
Early in his career Camp worked as a photojournalist for the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the Sunday Bulletin. He was a founding member of the
Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists
The Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists (PABJ) is a non-profit organization founded in 1973 by Black journalists concerned about the lack of Black journalists in the media and the dearth of coverage of the Black community. It is the fir ...
(PABJ).
In 1990 Camp began his photographic series ''Dust Shaped Hearts'', large photographic prints created with raw earth pigment and casein. The portrait series began with images of Black men and has expanded to include women and other races.
In 1995 Camp was the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
His work has been collected by the
Delaware Art Museum,
the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American-Art,
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art,
and the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Donald Camp currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
Camp's work was featured in the 2015 exhibition ''
We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s'' at the
Woodmere Art Museum.
References
External links
virtual exhibition of some of Donald E. Camp's Dust Shaped Hearts seriesincludes video of Camp showing his technique
Review on TheArtBlogDon Camp at the ICADonald Camp at the Coleman Center for the Arts
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1940 births
Living people
Artists from Philadelphia
American photographers
Temple University Tyler School of Art alumni
Pew Fellows in the Arts
Ursinus College faculty