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Photo credit: Ron Jude: Near the 45th Parallel, 1994, c-print.
Courtesy of the artist.
Photo credits:
Carol Selter: Fish Grasping, c-print,1999 and General Utility
(I), c-print,1999.
Courtesy of the artist.
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The 1999/2000 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography
sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and administered by
SF Camerawork.
The 1999/2000 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is given to three California-born artists. In addition to the cash award, each award-winner will be included in an exhibition at SF Camerawork.
Award Recipients:
Timothy Harvey, San Francisco, CA
Ron Jude, Ithaca, NY
Carol Selter, Soquel, CA
Honorable Mentions:
Jason Francisco, Oakland, CA
Deborah Hammond, San Francisco, CA
Laurie Long, San Francisco, CA
Timothy Harvey’s black & white photographs of the San Joaquin Valley town of Newman quietly examine the small transient moments of life. His series ponders the beauty of the ordinary made extraordinary by careful contemplation. Ron Jude explores life along the 4th parallel, the half-way point between the equator and the North Pole. Choosing a location in central Idaho that was his boyhood home, Jude describes the intertwining of myth and reality in the rural mountain environment. Carol Selter has been considering for many years now, the ways in which humans interact with other species. Focusing on the biologist’s study of the animal world, her work offers an elegant comment on our species own alienation from all others.
Jason Francisco mines the photography of the Shoah, and re-presents it as a means
of examining the ambiguity of the historical document. This ambiguity
reveals deeply emotive and psychological aspects of the Shoah
and uncovers what lies beneath such documentary images. Laurie Long’s Dating Surveillance Project is an undercover spoof revealing the tensions and rituals of dating through the use of a surveillance video camera sewn into the lining of the protagonist’s coat. The project considers female identity and women’s roles in the landscape of the singles scene.
The judges for the 1999/2000 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography were Diana Gaston, former Curator at the Museum
of Photographic Arts, San Diego and Ada Takahashi, Director of
the Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco.
The James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is sponsored by The
San Francisco Foundation and administered by SF Camerawork. The James D. Phelan Art Award was established by the trust of
James D. Phelan (1861-1930), former San Francisco mayor, United
States Senator and Arts Supporter, to recognize and reward the
achievements of California-born artists in a variety of disciplines.
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