TENNESON has been voted ‘one of the ten most influential women in the history of photography’ by the American Photo Magazine. She creates portraits of women in a traditional studio style (using the archival pigment print process) and colourful images of flowers.
'As a portrait photographer, I see flowers not as mere decorations, but as distinctive personalities. When I make a human portrait, I try to discover some inner essence that helps crystallize their uniqueness. I photograph flowers with the same respect,' she says.
On 30 July, the artist will be launching and singing her new book A Life in the Photography published by Bulfinch Press.
San Francisco, USA
Joyce Tenneson – A Life in the Photography Platinum
10 July – 30 August 2008
Gallery 291
www.gallery291.net
(c) Joyce Tenneson, Suzanne in Chair, 1986, archival pigment
