Jeannie O'Connor, Imogen!

Imogen and Tricycle

Tags: Black & White, Figurative, People, Portrait

About the artist

Jeannie O’Connor has an MA in painting from UC Berkeley but started working with Photography in graduate school. Jeannie does silver gelatin, pigment prints and prints on clear film. She developed a process of integrating photography with drawing and painting by painting on the rear surface of film positives and placing a sheet of drawing … continue reading

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Date: 1973
Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Size: 14x11"

There is a funny story to this image: Donna Deitch and I had driven Imogen and Lisette Model to the Art Institute. Donna was filming Imogen and I was taking stills, and Lisette Model came out as a guest lecturer at the SFArt Institute. Imogen's assistant was setting up the shot in a life drawing classroom at the SF Art Institute. There were many students surrounding Imogen. When I came in the room Imogen looked at me and threw her cape over her shoulder and said " Immortalize me ."

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