John stake

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John Pfahl (born February 17, 1939 in New York , NY - † April 15, 2020 in Buffalo , NY, USA) was an American photographer .

Stake grew up in Wanaque , New Jersey and studied at Syracuse University. There he joined the School of Art with the BA , and then graduated from the School of Communications of the MA . From 1968 to 1985 he taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology , from 1983/84 he was visiting professor at the University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , and from 1986 he was a professor at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in Buffalo.

Stake, who was represented in numerous exhibitions both in America and in Europe, specialized primarily in landscape photography. His pictures have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and have been published in many books. Among other honors, they earned him an honorary doctorate from Niagara University in 1979 .

He died of COVID-19 in April 2020 at the age of 81 .

Publications

  • Rebecca Solnit (text): Extreme Horticulture. Frances Lincoln, London.
  • Deborah Tall, Waterfall, Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000
  • Gary Hesse, Permutations on the Picturesque, Syracuse, NY: Lightwork, 1997
  • Estelle Jussim, A Distanced Land: Photographs of John Pfahl. Essay by Estelle Jussim, with series introduction by Cheryl Brutvan. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press in association with the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 1990 (exhibition catalog)
  • Estelle Jussim and Anthony Bannon, Arcadia Revisited: Niagara River and Falls from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press and the Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery of Niagara University, 1988
  • John Pfahl, Picture Windows. Introduction by Edward Bryant. Boston: New York Graphic Society; Little, Brown Company, 1987
  • John Stake, Altered Landscapes. The Photographs of John Pfahl. Portfolio of forty-eight dye transfer prints in an edition of one hundred. New York: RFG Publishing, Inc., 1982
  • John Pfahl, Altered Landscapes: The Photographs of John Pfahl. Introduction by Peter Bunnell. Carmel: The Friends of Photography in association with the Robert Freidus Gallery, 1981
  • John Stake, Altered Landscapes. Portfolio of ten dye transfer prints in an edition of twenty-four. Essay by William B. Parker. Sun Valley, Idaho: Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1980

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personal data
SURNAME Stake, john
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2020
Place of death Buffalo , NY