Geoffrey James
Geoffrey James (* 1942 in St Asaph Wales ) is a British- Canadian photographer .
James initially worked as a journalist and moved to Canada in 1966, where he worked for Time magazine in Montreal. From 1975 to 1982 he took up a position at the Canada Council in Ottawa. In the mid-1970s he began to focus on photography and from 1982 onwards he regularly exhibited photos. His works were shown at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 , Prospect 96: Photography in Contemporary Art Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1996 , Landscape: Recent Acquisitions , Museum of Modern Art , New York, 2012 Photography in Mexico San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , 2014 punctum. Comments on photography in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg .
Geoffrey James is known for black and white photography , taken with the panorama camera or the large format camera .
He has received numerous prestigious awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts . Geoffrey James is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts .
Web links
- Geoffrey James at artfacts.net
- Geoffrey James on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 159.
- ↑ Geoffrey James: The Landscape and the Camera , accessed November 30, 2016.
- ↑ National Gallery of Canada Meet the artist Geoffrey James ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on November 30, 2016
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| SURNAME | James, Geoffrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Canadian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St Asaph Wales |