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DIANE COOK (b.1954)
luminous, silvery, so sensuous and so subtle...They transform the commonplace into the extraordinary
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DIANE COOK BIOGRAPHY Diane Cook has been photographing the changing landscape of America since her graduation from Rutgers University in 1976. Her exquisitely toned black & white photographs are "luminous, silvery, so sensuous and so subtle", writes the Chicago Tribune of her one-person show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. "They transform the commonplace into the extraordinary". HOT SPOTS: America's Volcanic Landscape, was co-published with her husband, Len Jenshel (Bulfinch Press, Little Brown 1996), and was the winner of the Golden Light/Ernst Haas award for the best landscape photography book of 1996. This book pairs color photographs by Jenshel with black & white photographs by Cook and visually narrates the story of the earth creating itself, linking us to our geologic past. The photographs describe the indelible mark that volcanoes leave on the landscape and our imagination. Her newest publication, Aquarium, 2005, is another collaboration with Len Jenshel on public aquariums, again showing the harmonies, differences, and counterpoint of combining two sensibilities and two mediums (black & white and color). This project explores such themes as the beauty and surreal quality of the deep, the blurring of the real world with the unreal, and the control of nature. Her work is in numerous collections including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the L.A. County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. She was the recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts grant in 1987.
Selected publications
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