Jock Sturges Knihy

This is the first comprehensive publication on American photographer Jock Sturges (b. 1947) compiled by the artist himself. It is nothing less than an ode to beauty. For more than 20 years, he has been taking photographs of girls growing up, both in his native California and at a nudist resort on the Atlantic coast of France. Nudity in Sturges' work has never been a cheap or tawdry gimmick, rather it is shown as human beings' natural state. His photographs are an expression of the trust he has established over the years with the girls and their families. Calmly and almost casually, Sturges observes the aging process of his models. His striking long-term studies chart barely perceptible changes in their appearance, the slow maturing of the female body. Sturges preserves transient states that will never return; graceful forms that time will eventually extinguish. A sweet melancholia pervades Sturges' images as he knows that beauty is not an everlasting state -- but a brief moment in time whose essence we should cherish.

Fanny is an extended portrait of a young girl’s transition from child to woman. Made over a period of 23 years, the images are at once beautiful in their detail of light and identity and also frankly anthropological in their descriptive effect. A naturist since birth, Fanny’s comfort with nudity and her natural self has allowed Sturges to draw an engaging portrait of the evolution of a human being with few social distractions. His access to the girl’s and woman’s character is direct and fascinating. Long known for his extended portraits of children and adolescents, this work is strong evidence of Sturges’ permanent commitment to the people in his work.

Life Time presents a broad range of this color work for the first time and carries forward Sturges' extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities and on French naturist beaches.

Jock Sturges-Twenty-Five Years is a unique addition to the family of Jock Sturges publications. It is the first that presents an overview of his classic images made between the years 1978-2003 with personal commentary by the photographer opposite each reproduction. The twenty-five duotone reproductions are beautifully printed by Stinehour Press. Der Katalog ist von der Galerie Paul Cava Fine Art in Bala Cynwyd, PA (Amerika) editiert und mit einem Vorwort von Paul Cava versehen worden. Er beinhaltet 25 Fotografien, die Jock Sturges selbst kommentiert. Diese amerikanische Originalausgabe wird exclusiv von der edition MINOTAURUS in der GALERIE VEVAIS in Deutschland vertrieben.

Misty Dawn is one of Jock Sturges' primary and most popular muses. He has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years. Taken as a whole this series of images presents a unique, fully realised portrait of a blossoming individual and explores the relationship between photographer and subject.

Jock Sturges hat mit seinen Fotografien Menschen, die er liebt und schätzt, festgehalten: Mütter und Töchter, Freunde, Kinder. Er zeigt sie in der wehmütigsten aller Jahreszeiten, den letzten Tagen des Sommers, in denen Glück, süße Schwere und ein klein wenig Trauer sich verbinden. Vor dem Objektiv seiner Kamera offenbaren die Menschen ihre Beziehungen, nicht nur den andern gegenüber, sondern zeigen auch, wie ihr Inneres der Welt entgegentritt. Voller Zauber im Detail, sind diese Bilder entstanden, über Jahre hinweg, in gegenseitigem Vertrauen, ja Bewunderung des Künstlers und seiner Sujets.§In ihrem einführenden Essay deutet Jayne Anne Phillips die Fotografien und erforscht die vielschichtigen emotionalen Beziehungen zwischen Mutter und Kind, die Komplexität der Gefühle, die aus Sturges' Bildern spricht. Er fängt in den Fotos die Anmut, Wärme und Schönheit ein, ein Gefühl der Würde, das sich uns vermittelt.

"Jock Notes" gives fans of his unforgettable images a glimpse behind the scenes of his working process, opening up his studio and notes to the viewer for the very first time. A selection of preparatory studies, shot as Polaroids, accompanies the finished works included here--offering visual testimony to the complex process and inspiration that underlies each of the gorgeous images his audience has come to love and admire.

In Radiant Identities, photographer Jock Sturges explores issues of youth and the liberation of body and spirit. These unforgettable images are made from his own circle of acquaintances and family; the settings are their homes and stretches of naturist beaches in France and Northern California. In superb reproductions, Sturges evokes the classical spirit of Old Master paintings and late-nineteenth-century photographic tableaux, while probing concepts of emergent sexuality and psychological intimacy. Radiant Identities is the second volume in Sturges's ongoing work. Physically and psychically revealing, these deeply felt images are gloriously natural and wonderfully compelling. Elizabeth Beverly's introductory essay, drawn in part from conversations with Sturges's subjects, adds a new dimension to the photographs. These personal reflections shed light on the unique collaborative process by which Sturges's remarkable photographs are made. In the book's afterword, noted photography critic A.D. Coleman places Sturges in the context of current debates surrounding censorship in the arts, and discusses the themes of innocence and sexuality in the photographs.