Storyteller — Holly Roberts. Published by San Diego Museum of Art.
This exhibition catalogue simply and beautifully presents Holly Roberts’ work in a chronologically grouped set of plates. It is always a pleasure to explore Roberts’ painted and collaged photographic works of art, revelations of her vision and creative approach to the world. In this presentation, the purple-edged pages combine vibrantly with the olive debossed cover, grey endpapers, burgundy ribbon, and the saturated hues of the periodic fields of color placed throughout the book in orange, puce, navy blue, brown, red, lavender, and canary yellow.
A short text by Deborah Klochko, the exhibition’s curator, and a brief biography, offer context to the illustrated works, and a checklist at the end provides basic title, date, medium, and dimensions for the artworks. As an object, the book’s bold, clean design makes it a pleasure to examine, display on a shelf or table, or gift to a photography lover in your life.
Dr. Rebecca Senf is Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. Her B.A. in Art History is from the University of Arizona; her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded by Boston University. In 2012, her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press; in 2017, her book To Be Thirteen, showcasing the work of Betsy Schneider, was published by Radius Press and Phoenix Art Museum. She has curated fifty exhibitions, including her recent Richard Avedon: Relationships, which was shown in Milan and Palermo, Italy, and Rotterdam, in The Netherlands, and has contributed chapters, interviews, and essays to over a dozen publications.
In 2021, based on her successful proposal, the Center for Creative Photography was awarded a significant grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to produce a book and exhibition celebrating the Chicano photographer Louis Carlos Bernal. Senf is an Ansel Adams scholar, and in 2020 released a book on Adams’s early years, called Making a Photographer, co-published by the CCP and Yale University Press, now in a second printing.
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