PHOTOGRAPHER RESEARCH Terry Evans and Anne Ferran Koby Otsuka // DESMA 173 1
Terry Evans 1944 in Kansas City, Missouri Born: Chicago, Illinois Currently: BFA in Painting, University of Kansas, Education: 1968 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Knox College, 2001 Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Kansas, 2016 Exploring landscapes and rural areas Known for: in North America, focusing on land usage and the duality of the natural world with human development 1
“For a large portion of her career, Terry Evans has photographed the prairie, from its natural, untouched state to its care, development, use, and abandonment. Photographing from both ground and aerial perspectives, she focuses on the issues of specific places and how ecological, economic, agricultural, and cultural patterns physically shape the landscape.” -Museum of Contemporary Photography Our Place 2
Fractured: North Dakota’s Oil Boom (2011) 3
Oil pad and pipe lines near Missouri River, 2012 4
Steel Work - Production 5
Evans is particularly interested in the duality of specificity and abstraction. Her work ranges from arial shots of landscapes to documentation of plans and animals. The distanced view of landscape gives us a detached, wide-ranged perspective of the environment while her more-detailed shots allow us to examine nature at a closer level. from “Prarie Specimens” 6
“How else can we know where we fit in relationship to everything else in the world but by seeing it with attention, concentrated sustained attention?” -Terry Evans “Revealing Chicago” “Photographing from both ground and aerial perspectives, she focuses on the issues of specific places and how ecological, economic, agricultural, and cultural patterns physically shape the landscape.” -Museum of Contemporary Photography Ancient Praries 7
Tower Water District #2, Kansas, 1991 8
"How did our good intentions and values based on productivity lead us to exhaust the land we thought we loved?" -Terry Evans 9
Anne Ferran 1949 in Sydney, New South Whales Born: BA from the University of Sydney Education: BA from Sydney College of the Arts (1985) MFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales Ferran’s work is influenced by the Known for: Australian colonial period and much of her work follows the lives of unnamed women and children. 10
“For over 20 years, Anne Ferran has worked to uncover Australia and New Zealand’s colonial histories, probing for gaps and silences. She has been drawn to the lives of anonymous women and children, seeking to shed light on their presence and absence in museum collections, photographic archives and historic sites. It is characteristic of Ferran's work that the subject is not seen but instead haunts the image. Intellectually and emotionally engaging, her photographs have explored episodes of incarceration in prisons, asylums and hospitals, giving voice to the spectres of the lost and unseen.” - Stills Gallery 11
Ferran is most known for “Scenes on the Death of Nature” (1986). This exhibit included photographs of women dressed in long, white garments with facial expressions resembling neoclassical sculptures. This exhibit focused on the historial mistreatment of imprisoned colonial women. 12
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Untitled, baby’s dress Untitled (1998) 14
“Box of Birds is my response to a set of little-known photographs from 1948: 38 pictures of female patients taken in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. I discovered them by accident more than a decade ago (in a public library where they have since been removed). In 2013 I thought of working with performers as a way of releasing some of their latent power.” 15
Box of Birds (2013) 16
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