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connieimboden

For over 35 years I’ve been photographing the nude in water, often beneath the surface, & reflected in scratched partially de-silvered mirror shards

Connie Imboden
Some of the latest work in the mirrors continues t Some of the latest work in the mirrors continues to bring familiar layers and forms together in ways I haven’t seen before, blurring the lines between where one body ends and another begins…
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A couple spots left still available for the upcomi A couple spots left still available for the upcoming Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_workshops! 
LIVE through Zoom, every Monday between April 25th-June 13th. Details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This class is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/visual-illusions-level-1
More recent work from early 2022, continuing with More recent work from early 2022, continuing with this strange, ethereal twisting and transformation of forms. Some of these images strike me at how they almost make anatomical sense, and then the more I look at them the stranger they get…
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Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_wor Visual Illusions Level 1 with @nordphotography_workshops is just around the corner! 
LIVE through Zoom, every Monday between April 25th-June 13th. More details and registration link below and in bio 🙂
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Visual illusions are not only fascinating, they are powerful. It plays with the line between knowing and seeing. We think we “know” something but our eyes tell a different story. This class is about ways of exploring, discovering, developing, and utilizing the influence of illusions beyond mere tricks of seeing to compelling and poetic communication.
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Read more and register at https://www.nordphotography.com/visual-illusions-level-1
The “Becoming” talk with @peterbruunartist and The “Becoming” talk with @peterbruunartist and @kenroysterphotography was an absolute blast! Peter is such an insightful artist and curator, and I was delighted by some of the threads he observed throughout the course of my work- including this fascinating visual connection between a very early photograph (mid-1970’s) of a tree trunk and an image from my early explorations shooting in the mirrors. 
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There’s so much more in the talk, I was truly impressed with how much ground we were able to cover in the time we had, and far too much to share here… so I’ll leave it up to you to see for yourself! Link below, and in my bio 👍
ENJOY!
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https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/689382596
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#photography #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #connections #visualart
TOMORROW! Sign up for this FREE event to get the Z TOMORROW! Sign up for this FREE event to get the Zoom link and join us over space and time for a discussion on the creative path and decision making!
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The second event in a three-part series hosted by @peterbruunartist called BECOMING, @kenroysterphotography and I will be discussing our creative processes and artistic journeys through a live Zoom broadcast on March 16th, 7pm EDT. Registration is open through EventBrite via the link below and in my bio! 
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-connie-imboden-ken-royster-tickets-253060319227?keep_tld=1
The second event in a three-part series hosted by The second event in a three-part series hosted by @peterbruunartist called BECOMING, @kenroysterphotography and I will be discussing our creative processes and decision making through a live Zoom broadcast on March 16th, 7pm EDT. This online event is FREE, and registration is open through EventBrite via the link below and in my bio!
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-connie-imboden-ken-royster-tickets-253060319227?keep_tld=1
You’ve left footprints in my heart…😂 • #H You’ve left footprints in my heart…😂
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#HappyValentinesDay! ❤️
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Recent work from 2022… • #photography #through Recent work from 2022…
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#photography #throughthelens #fineart #transformation
Announcing the first actual LIVE, in-person worksh Announcing the first actual LIVE, in-person workshop in over 2 years! REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: Apr 3 - Apr 8, 2022, with @nordphotography_workshops 
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Black sand beaches, electric blue ice caps, dramatic fjords, volcanic craters, and seemingly endless lava fields: a STUNNING landscape that will serve as the backdrop for exploring the human form. Registration is almost full, but there are a couple spots still available! Link below and in bio….
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https://www.nordphotography.com/icelandconnieimboden
Egon Schiele - The Dancer, 1913, and Untitled # 01 Egon Schiele - The Dancer, 1913, and Untitled # 01-12-16-192, 2016.
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Love the similarities in the gesture and overall feeling between these two. The mirrors in 01-12-16-192 give the figure the same hard edged and exaggerated limbs as Schiele’s rendering of The Dancer. 
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#admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #fineartphotography @egonschieleofficial #egonschieleart
This just in… @nordphotography_workshops for Ear This just in… @nordphotography_workshops for Early 2022 announced! Link in bio for more info…
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Image Articulation: Jan 19 - Feb 9
4 weeks, 3 meetings, Wednesdays 1pm-3pm EST Online via ZOOM
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Visual Illusions, Level 1: Apr 25 - June 13
8 weeks, 6 meetings, Mondays 1pm-3pm EST Online via ZOOM
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REIMAGINE THE HUMAN FORM in ICELAND: Apr 3 - Apr 8
LIVE, in-person workshop to be held in Úlfjótsskáli, Iceland - 10 participant limit
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It’s going to be a great year 🥳 
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January is always a time for resolutions- of looki January is always a time for resolutions- of looking back on the past while simultaneously considering the future. January got its name before the year 1000 from Middle English, ultimately deriving from the Latin noun use of Jānuārius, equivalent to Jānus…
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When I made the image I call “Dead Silences”, I was in my second year of grad school. In a critique with 8 fellow students and the professor, one student mentioned that it reminded them of a “Janus” face. Rather than admit that I had never heard of “Janus” before, I nodded in agreement with most of the other students who seemed to understand what this statement meant. I did however research it afterwards, and was surprised at just how accurate this observation was:
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According to Wikipedia, “In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past.” Thinking of this, it is no surprise the ancient deity is the perfect symbol, the ideal manifestation, of new beginnings... 
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Wishing you a happy new year, insightful retrospection on 2021, and exciting new beginnings in 2022!
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#Janus #mythology #fineartphotography #blackandwhitephotography #photography
More recent images as I look back on 2021. After a More recent images as I look back on 2021. After a relatively low amount of shooting in 2020, this past year found me in the studio much more consistently, and I’m looking forward to continuing into the next. Cheers, and happy new year!!
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Looking back on 2021, starting with a few images f Looking back on 2021, starting with a few images from some recent shoots and taking in a year of exciting new challenges and inspiring discoveries…
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Perhaps a freaky #FlashbackFriday… • Piet Mond Perhaps a freaky #FlashbackFriday…
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Piet Mondrian once said “The position of the artist is to be humble. He is essentially a channel”. This is what it means to follow an intuitive process - to be open to expressions from a deeper place, and sometimes finding these expressions to be hideously difficult, uncomfortably revealing. Other times it forces us to confront a darkness we stumble upon spontaneously, but recognize instantly, and would rather run away from. 
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I talk more about the creation of this image from 1993, Untitled #3725, The Challenge of Darkness and it’s presence in my work in the blog post below, also clickable in the bio. Have you ever been surprised or even shocked by images or artwork you’ve created? Have you ever been startled by expressions in your work, while at the same time identifying with their truth? Share in the comments! 
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https://connieimboden.com/2015/05/the-challenge-of-darkness/
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#fineartphotography #darkness #creativeprocess #intuition #munch #edvardmunch #photography @edvard_munch_art @munchmuseet.no #admiration
Still photo of Louis Bouwmeester playing Oedipus i Still photo of Louis Bouwmeester playing Oedipus in 1896, and Untitled # 09-04-13-287
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I am a huge fan of mythology, and it's no surprise that there are often echoes of mythological iconography in my work...
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Joseph Campbell once said that the main job of the artist is to take basic human truths, myths, stories, or complex emotions and state them in the language and context of the present. He references Jung's notion that when an artist is able to express from these archetypal sources, they are capable of speaking with a thousand voices. 
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Although it is "Untitled", I refer to # 09-04-13-287 as Oedipus. In the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, Oedipus, King of Thebes, gouges out his eyes after unwittingly killing his father and marrying his mother. The same sense of suffering, of absolute physical and mental anguish, seems mirrored in the photograph of Louis Bouwmeester playing the role of the desperate king in a Dutch production of the play from 1896. In my image, one model is lit with a red filter over the strobe, giving a very raw, wounded, painful impression to those portions of the figure. There are subtle smears of red that appear over his eyes, like Oedipus, blinded and bloody. Although these details are graphic enough, I still have the sense that this figure represents more of an internal struggle, a portrait of a psychic battle in some dark corner of the mind. 
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#oedipus #oedipusrex #greektragedy #photography #fineartphotography #munch #edvardmunch #photography @edvard_munch_art @munchmuseet.no
Another look at “Bacon & Me”: Crucifixion from Another look at “Bacon & Me”: Crucifixion from 1933, and Untitled # 06-23-17-534 from 2017. 
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For more, check out the blog post at 
http://connieimboden.com/2020/03/francis-bacon-me
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#bacon #francisbacon #admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #painting @francisbaconartist
#WayBackWednesday • In my adult life, I've only #WayBackWednesday
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In my adult life, I've only ever created one self-portrait, which was back in 1990 in my very earliest explorations into working with mirrors. I had just started to experiment with scratching, scarring, and de-silvering the surface of the mirror to disrupt its smooth, reflective surface, transforming subjects in front of and behind it. 
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Many years earlier, as a young student at @marylandinstitutecollegeofart in the early 1970's, self-portraits were my primary subject matter. The same hands-on, anomalous spirit within drove me to cut, scrape, and even scotch-tape my negatives to transform otherwise straightforward self-portraits into expressions of the true identity I felt hidden beneath layers of social masks. While at the time I had no intention of creating such statements, the power of hindsight has made clear that they were revelations of my veiled insecurities, and my desire to conceal my true self. 
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I am consistently taken aback by the connections t I am consistently taken aback by the connections that keep revealing themselves between my images and the work of Edvard Munch. Sometimes they are straightforward, and other times they create a link that is almost more of a reinterpretation, although no less direct. The merging of the figures in Munch’s “Kiss” from 1897 next to the literal merging of the figures in Untitled # 08-20-21-402 is a great example, and took my breath away when I discovered it. 
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#munch #edvardmunch #admiration #inspiration #influence #photography #painting @edvard_munch_art @munchmuseet.no
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I have been working on two approaches to the nude reflected: reflected in water often with the camera underwater, and reflected in scratched, broken and partially de-silvered mirrors.

Over thirty-five years of photographing this same subject may sound limiting, but I have found it to be immensely rewarding and rich. While my interest in photographing the nude reflected in mirrors and water has not changed, my life experiences continue to shape the forms and reflections I see through the lens so the images continue to evolve.

I am not fundamentally opposed to altering the image through darkroom or computer manipulation, but it is the act of exploring with my eyes that brings the intuitive process to its full potential for me. Intuition is an integral part of the creative process for me. When I make an image that becomes a “keeper,” it is because I have made a leap from what I know to an unfamiliar place full of intrigue that my conscious mind could not have taken me. The intuitive process takes me to the edge of what I know and, more interestingly, to the edge of what I don’t know.

Ultimately, my goal has always been to explore the body, not to alter it. I want to find the camera angle from which the forms can be the most interesting they can be–whatever that is. It leads me to explore angles, space, reflections, and light. I strive to make the forms make sense visually and then trust the poetry or metaphor will follow. Sometimes it does.

 

Solo Exhibitions

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2016 – Y: ART Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2015 – Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2014 – Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
JRB Art at The Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

2013 - Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway

2011 - Saul Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2010 - Hargate Gallery, Concord, MA

2009 - Maine Art Museum, Bangor, ME
See+ Art Gallery, Bejing, China
Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

2008 - Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Valdivia, Chile
Universidad de Chilie, Santiago, Chile
Centro de la Photographie, Lima, Peru

2007 - Museo Metropolitano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Mayor, Temeco, Chile
James Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

2006 – Heineman Meyers, Bethesda, MD

2005 – Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France
Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2004 – Volakis Gallery, Nappa, CA

2003 – Packard Reath Gallery, Lewes, DE
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
McDaniel College, Westminster, MD

2002 – Trinity Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2001 – Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Waldburger, Berlin, Germany
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Edward Carter Gallery, Lewes, DE

2000 – Centro de la Fotographia, Lima, Peru
Infocus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
JJ Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bassetti Fine Art Photographs, New Orleans, LA
Emma Molina Galerie, Monterey, Mexico

1999 – Gomez Gallery Baltimore, MD
Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris, France
Alan Klotz PhotoCollect, New York, NY
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

1998 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1997 – Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo de Panama
Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Infocus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museo de Barquisimento, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Costarricense, San Jose, Costa Rica
Galeria del Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela

1996 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Witkin Gallery, New York, NY

1994 – Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Gallery Finfoto, Helinski, Finland
Galleria 13, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France
Braggiotti Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galleria e Libreria dell’Immagine, Milan, Italy
The University of Notre Dame, Indiana

1993 – Galerie du Chaeau d’eau, Toulouse, France
Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

1992 – Witkin Gallery, New York, NY
Suzel Berna Gallery, Paris, France
Grauwert Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1991 – Momediano Gallerie de Arte, Madrid, Spain
New Works Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Nye Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Blatant Image/ Silver Eye, Pittsburg, PA

1990 – Photo West Gallery, San Diego, CA
Iris Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1989 – Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1988 – The Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Booktrader’s Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Publications

 

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2018 – Plethora Magazine, "Issue #7: Automation", Copenhagen, Denmark

2017 – Baltimore Magazine, "The Puppet Master" by Gabriella Souza, February
– The OD Review, "v2.18 / Connie Imboden’s Infirm Delight"

2016 – BmoreArt, "Conversations" Episode #15: Connie Imboden, Interview with Liz Donadio
– The Baltimore Sun, October 14, Interview with Tim Smith

2015 – >>Love is…<< inFocus galerie catalogue
– Little Patuxent Review, COVER Feature, Issue 17-Winter 2015
– The Stone Mag: unveiling the secrets of transmutation, 2015 n. 0

2014 – The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas NORMAL Magazine, No. 4, Autumn 2014

2013 – FOTO, "Connie Imboden, Reflections of Man" October 2013

2010 – Georgia Review, “Danse Macabre” Front and back cover and inside portfolio

2008 – Focus Magazine, “Fire and Water” 1/8/08
– RS Magazine “Connie Imboden” June 2008

2007 - Foto Mundo, “La Oscuradad Divina” June 2007

2006 – Baltimore Sun, Wednesday April 12, Arts & Society

2005 – Inked Magazine, cover, Spring Premiere Issue

2003 – Baltimore Sun, Sunday November 2, Arts & Society
– Baltimore City Paper, December 3
– Towson Times, December 3, Life Times

2002 – Ag, Volume 29, November, “Running Deeper: The Metamorphesis of
Connie Imboden”, A.D. Coleman
– Photovision: Art & Technique
– Foto & Video, February

2001 – Zoom, July, “Connie Imboden”, David Crosby
–Photographic, July, “Connie Imboden: Troubled Waters”, Jay Jorgensen

2000 – B&W Magazine, June Issue #7

1999 – Baltimore Magazine, September
–Baltimore Sunday Sun, September, Arts and Society
–Photo Metro, Volume 17, Issue 155

1998 – The Photo Review, Fall, Volume 21, Issue #4
–Master Breasts, Aperture Publishing

1997 – Leg, Donna Karan Inc

1995 – Women Artists, The National Museum of Women in the Arts
–Zoom Magazine, Italy
–Photodom Magazine, January “Connie Imboden: Out of Darkness”
–La Matiere L’ombre La Fiction, Jean Claude Lemagny, Bibliotheque
Nationale, France

1994 – Valokuva Finnish Photography, November, Helinski, Finland
–Tradition and the Unpredictable, Catalog for show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
–Photographies Magazine, January, Milan, Italy

1993 – ViewCamera, September/October

1992 – Photovision, “Archeology of the Body”, #23, Sevilla, Spain
–La Foltgrafia, “Reflejos en el Agua”, Issue #23, Barcelona, Spain
–Vis a Vis, Issue #10, Paris, France
–Photonews, “Imboden: Ein Speiegel Nach Innen”, April, Hamburg,
Germany

1991 – Fotopractica, January, Milan, Italy
–Fotografisk Tidskrift, May, Stockholm, Sweden
–Photoblatter, “Connie Imboden: Korper im Wasser”, August,
Frankfurt, Germany
–Camera and Darkroom, August, Beverly Hills, CA
–Idea Magazine, “New Wave Nude Photos”, January, Tokyo, Japan

1990 – Popular Photography, “They Still Shoot Nudes, Don’t They?”,
October, New York, NY
–Insight Magazine, February, Bristol, RI

1989 – Photo Metro Magazine, January
–Photo Design Magazine, February

1988 – Swimmers, Aperture, June
–Exploring Black and White Photography, Brown Publishers
–Photo Review, Winter, “Deep Waters – The Photographs of Connie
Imboden”
–Photo Review, Spring, “The Delaware Portfolio”

1987 – Photo Review, Summer

Selected Lectures

 

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2016 – Y: ART Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2015 – Infocus Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2014 – Almlof Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
JRB Art at The Elms, Oklahoma City, OK

2013 Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund, Norway

2013 DASAR National Academy of Science, Washington DC

2012 Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2009 Maine Art Museum, Bangor ME
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE

2008 Centro de la Photographie, Lima Peru

2007 James Gallery Pittsburgh PA

2005 Esther Woerdehoff Galerie Paris France

Prior to 2004:
Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacsonville, FL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Museumof Photographic Arts, San Diego CA
George Mason Univrsity, VA
Delaware College of Art and Design, Wilmington DE
University of Finland, Helsinki Finland
Les Rencontres d'Arles Arles, France
Washington Center for Photography, Washington D.C.
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

Museum Collections

 

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

The Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland

Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela

The National Museum of American Art, Washington DC

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

The Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

The Bibliotheque Lyonnaise, Lyon, France

The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI

Galerie du Chateau d'eau, Toulouse, France

Galleria e libreria dell'immagine, Milan, Italy

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

L'oeil Quiperios, Quimper, France

Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Peréz Art Museum Miami, FL