Judy Dater

Judy Dater was born in Hollywood and has been making photographs for 30 years. She has had so many awards, exhibitions and publications that trying to select some is near impossible. She is one of America’s foremost photographers, with an international reputation for her uniquely perceptive portraits of women and confrontational photographs of the nude. Recently she has been working in Italy photographing Roman Statues and contemporary Italians - the results are amazing! Judy Dater : Twenty Years 1986 Body and Soul : Ten American Women 1988, Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait 1979, Women and Other Visions 1976, Women & Other Visions 1975, are just some of her publications.

Who and what turns you on, thrills you, disturbs, intrigues and excites you? This is the visual raw material that will allow your imagination to open and will produce the most rewarding photographs. These "turn ons" can be challenging, even frightening, but worth pursuing. Here lies the path towards expressing your own visual voice. This workshop will be a vehicle for exploring your personal choices of subject and style. There will be group field trips, critiques, exposure to other master photographers’ methods and darkroom sessions. Students working singly or in small groups will be encouraged to seek out their own subjects. There will be instruction on how to approach strangers and gain their confidence. There will be information and demonstrations on composition, backgrounds and finding the ‘right light’. Our time will be spent in critique of fieldwork, slide lectures and the viewing of historically important work by photographers who work with people. Instruction on sequencing, editing and preparing work for exhibition will be covered. Please bring a portfolio of prints or slides with you. All formats of camera are acceptable.

Judy Dater : Twenty Years 1986

Body and Soul : Ten American Women 1988

, Imogen Cunningham : A Portrait 1979

, Women and Other Visions 1976

, Women & Other Visions 1975

Here's some details of Judy's remarkable career - not enough room for it all!.....

Born: Hollywood, California June 21, 1941

Grants and Awards

1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant

1987 Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant

1978 Guggenheim Fellowship

1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant

1974 Dorothea Lange Award, Oakland Museum

1996-1997 Instructor, San Jose City College

1996-1997 Instructor, University of California Extension, San Francisco

1994 Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute

1992 Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute

1987-1990 Instructor, International Center of Photography

1985 Guest Instructor, Kansas City Art Institute

1974-1978 Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute

1966-1974 Instructor, University of California Extension, San Francisco

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

1996 Judy Dater Photographs. Fotogaleria del Teatro General San

Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Judy Dater: A Selected Survey, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland

Choices, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto

Cycles. Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu Hawaii

1994 Cycles. Galeries Arlesiennes, Arles, France.

Cycles. International Center of Photography, N.Y.

1993 Judy Dater: Photographs & Installations 1988-1992

Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto

1992 Cycles. Matsuya Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1991 Judy Dater Photography. Stockton State College Art Gallery, Pomona

1990 Options Gallery, Odessa College, Odessa

1989 Judy Dater, New Works. Blatant Image/Silver Eye, Pittsburgh

1988 The Spirit of Woman, Judy Dater Photographs. Albin O. Kuhn Library and

Gallery,University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Recent and Rarely Seen Photographs, Judy Dater. Images Gallery, Cincinnati,

1986 Judy Dater. Webster University, St. Louis

Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC

Portraits of Disabled Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Victor Hasselblad Aktiebolag Gallery, Goteborg, Sweden

Lone Star Photographic Workshop, Austin

1982 Lightworks/Film in the Cities, St. Paul

Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC

1979 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles,

1978 Witkin Gallery, New York

1975 Spectrum Gallery, Tucson

Silver Image Gallery, Seattle

1972 Witkin Gallery, New York

1965 Aardvark Gallery, San Francisco

Selected Group Exhibitions

1996 A History of Women Photographers. The New York Public Library

Fields of Vision: Women in Photography. Albin O Kuhn Library & Gallery,

University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

1994 Portrait of My Mother, Institues Francais d'Ecosse, Edinburgh, Scotland and institute Francais du Royaume-Uni, London

Meaning at the Crossroads: The Portrait in Photography. Bowdoin College

Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

NUDE. Spiral Hall, Toyko, Japan

One Hand Clapping. Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto

1991 Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portraits of Contemporary Women. TokyoMetropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

1990 The Odalisque. Jayne Baum Gallery, New York

Suburban Home Life: Tracking the American Dream. Whitney Museum

1988 Behold the Man: The Male Nude in Photography. Stills Gallery, Edinburgh.

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1986 Staging the Self: Self-Portrait Photography 1840s-1980s. National

Portrait Gallery, London, England

1985 Self as Subject. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu

The Nude in Photography. Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

Attitudes: Photography in the Seventies. Santa Barbara Museum of Art

1978 Forty American Photographers. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,

Mirrors and Windows. The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tusen Och en Bild. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1977 Great West : Real/Ideal University of Colorado, Boulder

1975 Women of Photography: An Historical Survey, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1974 Photography in America. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Private Realities: Recent American Photography, Boston Museum of Fine Arts,

1972 Photographic Portraits, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia

Photographs of Women, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1970 California Photographers 1970. Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena

Be-ing Without Clothes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

1969 Vision and Expression. International Museum of Photography, Rochester

Selected Permanent Collections

Bibliotheque National, Paris, France

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson

Indiana University, Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Bloomington

International Center for Photography, New York

International Museum for Photography, Rochester

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Stanford University, Stanford

Toppan Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

University of California, Los Angeles

Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Major Publications, Books

1994 Cycles. Judy Dater. Essays by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., and Michiko

Kasahara. Introduction by Sheryl Conkelton. INterview by Donna Stein.

Curatorial Assistance, Inc., Pasadena

1992 Cycles: Judy Dater. Interview by Donna Stein. Essay by Michiko Kasahara.

Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan

1988 Body & Soul: Ten American Women, Judy Dater & Carolyn Coman.

1986 Judy Dater: Twenty Years. Essay by James Enyeart.

1979 Imogen Cunningham: A Portrait

1975 Women and Other Visions, Photographs by Judy Dater and Jack Welpott.

Selected Publications, Books

1996 Our Mothers. Editor, Viviane Esders: Stewart, Tabori, and Chang

1995 Luz y tiempo. selections by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Fields of Vision: Women in Photography.

1994 A History of Women Photographers. Naomi Rosenblum.

1990 Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography, Emmanuel Cooper.

1989 Portrait and the Camera: A Celebration of 150 Years of Photography.

1987 The Naked and the Nude, Jorge Lewinski

1986 50 Years of Modern Color Photography 1936-1986. Photokina, Germany

1985 Masterpieces of Photography the George Eastman House Collections

1984 A World History of Photography, Naiomi Rosenblum

1980 Contact Theory. Lustrum Press, New York

1978 Darkroom II, Jane Kelly. Lustrum Press, New York

1977 Faces: A Narrative History of the Portrait in Photography, Ben Maddow.

1973 The Woman's Eye, Anne Tucker. Knopf, New York

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