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Jock Sturges

American, b. 1947

BiographySturges is known for his explicit nudes and portraits of extended families in northern California counter-culture communities, Ireland, and on French naturist beaches. His compositions borrow significantly from classical poses common to both photography and 19th and early 20th century painting. He treats his subjects with enormous sensitivity, successfully capturing the innocence and grace of young women on the verge of adulthood. Sturges holds a BFA from Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington, and spends his summers in France.

EXTENDED BIO
Jock Sturges (born 1947, New York) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families. Sturges graduated with a BFA in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.[1] His subjects are nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort at Montalivet, France. Much of his work features Californian Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a young child until in her twenties.[2]

Sturges primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera. He has taken some digital photographs but prefers to work with prints.[3] His work has been the subject of controversy in the United States. In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers and his equipment seized. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him.[4] In 1998 unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in the U.S. states of Alabama and Tennessee.[5][6]

REFERENCES
"Jock Sturges". kochgallery.com. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
Jump up ^ Perring, Christian (2009). "Review - Misty Dawn". metapsychology.mentalhelp.net. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
Jump up ^ Beem, Edgar Allen (January 3, 2008). "Catching Up with; The Way of All Flesh". Photo District News. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
Jump up ^ Steinberg, David (March 19, 1998). "Naked Truth". Metroactive.com. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
Jump up ^ Lane, III Frederick (2001). Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age. Routledge. p. 126. ISBN 978-0415931038. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
Jump up ^ "Obscenity Case Is Settled". The New York Times. May 19, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2013.

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