Lee Isaacs is an American
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographers
As in other ...
, living and working in
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...
.
Isaacs studied pinhole photography with
Pinky Bass
Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmin ...
. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.
He has involved himself with many different aspects of photography and photography over the last twenty years. He incorporates processes including
digital,
polaroid,
polaroid transfer,
pinhole photography,
digital as well as
color photography of all sorts and
gelatin silver
The gelatin silver process is the most commonly used chemical process in black-and-white photography, and is the fundamental chemical process for modern analog color photography. As such, films and printing papers available for analog photography ...
.
James Nelson, said, "Using the human torso as a point of departure, Lee Isaacs' digital photographs turn undulating flesh and bone into sand dunes that become beautiful landscapes."
As an active member of the Photography Guild of the
Birmingham Museum of Art
The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. It has one of the most extensive collections of artwork in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts repres ...
, Isaacs helps provide support to the museum's photography collection through programming and fund-raising. Through this guild, Isaacs recently participated in the "Pinhole Camera" exhibit at Whatley Drake along with Sylvia Martin, Sonja Rieger and
Wayne Sides.
Media
*''"UpSouth,"'' Essays by
bell hooks, Emma Amos and Antoinette Spanos Nordan. Poetry by Priscilla Hancock Cooper.
raveling exhibition. 76 pp., color illus. 4to (10 x 8 in.), wraps. 1999 University of Alabama Press.
*As the photography editor, Isaacs contributed photowork to over 20 editions of the ''Alabama Art Monthly'' published by
Agnes as the first statewide art magazine with photospreads, portraits and tableaux work.
*Isaacs was the still photographer for the film ''Johnny Flynton.''
"Johnny Flynton"
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Notes
External links
Lee Isaacs' website
Noles-Ross lists this in her bio.
"Johnny Flynton," 2002
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Photo attribute by Isaacs
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Photo attribute by Isaacs
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Living people
American portrait photographers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Artists from Birmingham, Alabama