lery in his name dedicated at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque in 1986. Retired to Santa Fe,
New Mexico in 1987. Died Albuquerque, New Mexico
11 July 2004.Individual Exhibitions
1940 University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky
1961 George Eastman House; Rochester, New York
1975 Galerie Die Brucke, Vienna; Galerie Nagel; West Berlin
1976 Van Deren Coke; Susan Spiritus Gallery; Newport
Beach, California
1977 Van Deren Coke; School of Art and Architecture,
University of Southwestern Louisiana; Lafayette,
Louisiana
1981 Retrospective; University of New Mexico; Albuquer-
que, New Mexico
1985 Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; San Miguel de
Allende; Mexico
1991 Streets of Mexico; University of New Mexico Art
Museum; Albuquerque, New Mexico, and traveling
1993 Van Deren Coke; Vision Gallery; San Francisco, California
1997 50 Years of Photography; Howard Greenberg Gallery;
New York, NewYork
Group Exhibitions
1957 A Photographer’s Gallery; New York (with Ralph Meatyard)
1962 Les Grands Photographes de Notres Temps; Versailles,
France
1973 Light and Lens; Hudson River Museum; Yonkers, New York
1992 Patterns of Influence: Teacher/Student Relationships in
American Photography Since 1945; Center for Creative
Photography, University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona
2000 Florida Photogenesis: The Works of Creative/Experi-
mental Photographers in Florida; Florida State Museum
of Fine Arts; Tallahassee, FloridaSelected Works
Brett Weston, 1950
Homage to Derain, 1968
Homage to the Dada Constructivists (from the New Mexico
Portfolio), 1975Further Reading
Coke, Van Deren, ed.One Hundred Years of Photography
History: Essays in Honor of Beaumont Newhall. Albu-
querque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press,
1975.
Coke, Van Deren. Introductory essay,Fabricated to be
Photographe. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, 1979.
Coke, Van Deren. Preface,Photography: A Facet of Mod-
ernism. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Mod-
ern Art, 1986.COLOR TEMPERATURE
Color temperature is the overall measure of the
coloration of light. A glowing filament emits this
temperature in most light sources from the center
of the light bulb. The color of light is dependent
upon the temperature of the heated filament, and
the range of color temperature moves from low
intensity, which is red, through yellow, white, and
blue at the highest and most intense setting. This
temperature and corresponding color difference is
measured on the Kelvin scale, a scale similar to the
Fahrenheit or Celsius scales but with 273 degrees
added to the Celsius temperature range. On the
Kelvin scale, absolute zero is placed at 0K and
the freezing point of water is 273K.
The color temperature of skylight (bright blue
sky) is 11,000K, an electronic flash 6,000K, day-
light 5,000K, a flash bulb 4,000K, a photo flood-
light 3,200K, a household or tungsten light bulb
2,800K, and candlelight 1,900K. The more in-
tense the light source and higher the amount of
heat, the cooler and bluer the color cast of the light
that is produced from the light source. The lower
the intensity of the light source and amount of heat
produced, the redder the color cast. This goes
against common sense notions of hotter objects
having a redder color and cooler objects having a
bluer tone because the intensity measured is that of
heat and light rather than object and its color hue.
Two types of film are available for photographing
in all light sources: tungsten film, which is 3,200K
and daylight film, which is 5,500K. These two
types of film provide color balance options that
match the colorcast of the light to an appropriate
range in the film used for photographing in thatCOKE, VAN DEREN