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American photographer (1929–1968)
Geraldine Sharpe
Born1929
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedDecember 29, 1968(1968-00-00) (aged 38–39)
West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other namesGerry Sharpe
Alma materSan Francisco Art Institute
OccupationPhotographer
Years active1950s–1968

Geraldine Sharpe (1929–1968), also known as Gerry Sharpe, was an American photographer. She had worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams. Sharpe's two major bodies of work include photographs of landscapes, and of Ghana (from 1962).

Biography

Geraldine Sharpe was born in 1929 in Trenton, New Jersey. She attended the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), where she graduated in 1956. She studied under Pirkle Jones and Bill Quandt. While in school, her film camera was a Zeiss Ikon 120.

After graduation she worked as a photo assistant for Ansel Adams between 1957 until 1962. Many of her landscape photos were taken at the same locations as Adams, however her work had more dark tonal qualities and appeared "tragic" in subject and composition.

In 1962, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for photography, which was used to work in Ghana. In 1967, she helped co-found the Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. At the time of her death in 1968 she was the director of photography at the Francis du Pont Winterhur Museum (now Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library) in Delaware.

She died on December 29, 1968, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, after a short illness at the age of 39. Her work is part of the museum collection at the Monterey Museum of Art.

References

  1. Garner, Gretchen (1987). Reclaiming Paradise: American Women Photograph the Land. Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-295-96534-5.
  2. ^ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013-12-19). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 1670. ISBN 978-1-135-63889-4.
  3. ^ "Obituary for Geraldine Sharpe". The San Francisco Examiner. 1968-12-31. p. 28. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  4. ^ "Hands Seen as Symbols". The San Francisco Examiner. 1955-01-16. p. 62. Retrieved 2022-12-18.
  5. "Geraldine Sharpe". Monterey Museum of Art. Retrieved 2022-12-18.

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