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Fine Art Photographer, Jennifer Wright, Joins FAA

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Fine Art Photographer, Jennifer Wright, Joins FAA

October 13th, 2014 - Port Charlotte, FL

Jennifer has an impressive and varied history in the photography world. Her first introduction to a 35mm camera came as a teenager as she traveled throughout Europe alone in the 1970’s. It was during this adventure when her passion for photography caught fire and has yet to diminish over the many decades that have followed.

Returning to New York City after that trip to Europe, a different career path evolved which led Jennifer to relocate to San Francisco and earn a degree in Cinematography. However, Jennifer wasn’t ready to abandon her first love--still photography. She claimed that she preferred the solitary pursuit of only one set of eyes behind the camera and only one finger releasing the shutter, rather than working in a large collaborative effort. She wanted only one visual image realized: her own.

Jennifer sought out the prestigious photography school--see bio............Brooks Institute of Photographic Arts and Sciences in Santa Barbara, CA, and went on to earn a BA degree in Illustration Photography in the 1980’s. It was at Brooks that Jennifer mastered the darkroom. She became well regarded for her impressive large-scale black and white printing ability and was considered by many to be a master black and white fine art printer. It was actually in the darkroom where Jennifer’s visual style began to emerge, as she manipulated papers and filters and printing techniques to enhance her artistic vision. The study of film history and movie-making had refined her eye for atmospheric elements and the use of chiaroscuro to shape her aesthetic sensibilities, regardless of the subject.

Additionally, the early aesthetic movement in photography known as “Pictorialism”* had influenced Jennifer greatly. Pictorial photographers, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier had made an impression. Later, the French photographer, Sarah Moon and American photographer, Deborah Turbeville reinvented pictorialism in Jennifer’s mind, and cemented the longed-for modern inspiration. These photographers and the artistic elements they incorporated captured Jennifer’s imagination. Jennifer was known to have said “I’m creating photographs, not taking them”. In fact, each photograph Jennifer printed became a ‘one of a kind’, as no two photographs could be duplicated with the complicated techniques Jennifer incorporated. Jennifer had developed her own set of Photoshop-like techniques before Photoshop was ever invented. She now realizes much the same control, however it’s accomplished with Adobe Lightroom’s post production software.

Jennifer went on to teach photography and darkroom techniques for several years at Vanderbilt University in her hometown of Nashville, TN. After a few years, Jennifer returned to California and worked in the photography business for another decade before relocating to Santa Fe, NM in the 1990s. Jennifer continued with photo exhibitions and

sales to private collectors and enjoyed fine art dealer representation by Cynthia Drennon Fine Arts for a time. Jennifer also found success as a commercial photographer, specializing in shooting jewelry and portraits in her Santa Fe studio.

Jennifer received the First Place Award by the APA (Advertising Photographers of America) Personal Work Competition in Los Angeles in 1993. She also won First Place in Photography during a competition at Las Vegas’ Nevada Art Museum in 2003. Jennifer was a winner in California’s Ventura County’s Life in Style Magazine Competition in 2005. Kodak and Illford have each bestowed awards upon select images from Jennifer’s portfolio.

In 2012, Jennifer toured and photographed 12 countries in Europe with her British fiancé, a stock photographer. They have since married and settled in Southwest Florida. They now enjoy traveling together and building upon their stock libraries. Jennifer is also busy adding to her fine art portfolio and making her photographs available to collectors from around the world.

*Pictorial Photography: Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of 'creating' an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus (some more so than others), is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white (ranging from warm brown to deep blue) and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer's realm of imagination.[1] Pictorialism as a movement thrived from about 1885 to 1915, although it was still being promoted by some as late as the 1940s. It began in response to claims that a photograph was nothing more than a simple record of reality, and transformed into an international movement to advance the status of all photography as a true art form. For more than three decades painters, photographers and art critics debated opposing artistic philosophies, ultimately culminating in the acquisition of photographs by several major art museums. Pictorialism gradually declined in popularity after 1920, although it did not fade out of popularity until the end of World War II. During this period the new style of photographic Modernism came into vogue, and the public's interest shifted to more sharply focused images. Several important 20th-century photographers began their careers in a pictorialist style. Interest in pictorial images remains constant with many collectors throughout the art world. More info: www.fotogoat.com

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