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Diane
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| 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.In 1998, she began 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. AQUARIUM, is scheduled for spring, 2002. (View Press Release) Other projects of Ms. Cook's include gardens, coastline, and icebergs. She has had one-person shows at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City, Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington, DC, G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle, Scheinbaum & Russek Gallery in Santa Fe, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. 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. |
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