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| Pirkle Jones: American Photographic History
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a photography career spanning six decades, Pirkle Jones has captured,
in thousands of black-and-white images, the people, place, politics
and promise of California.
The Rasmussen Art Gallery at Pacific Union College welcomes a Pirkle Jones exhibition
opening on Saturday, October 2, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. This exhibit features
25 images that suggest the sweep and scope of Jones’ immense body of work.
Examples from the documentary essay “Death of a Valley,” in which
Pirkle Jones worked with Dorothea Lange to document the final year of Berryessa
Valley, will be included in the Rasmussen exhibit. The artist will also be present
to sign copies of his book, California Photographs, which will be available at
the gallery.
Jones embraces an array of genres—commercial, documentary and fine art
photography. He has worked collaboratively with his wife—writer, photographer
and poet Ruth-Marion Baruch—on several projects, as well as working collaboratively
with Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. These two photographers, along with Minor
White and Edward Weston, influenced Pirkle’s artistic formation; he developed,
however, his own idiosyncratic visual sensibility as a photographer.
After taking up residence in the Bay Area as a student in the first photography
class at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute),
Jones spent 50 years in the area exploring the rich cultural, physical, architectural,
and spiritual terrain of his environment with an unflinching eye and rigorous
evaluation.
The Pirkle Jones exhibit is open to the public and free of charge. Rasmussen
Art Gallery is regularly open Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1-5 p.m.
For more information call 707-965-6303.
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