Further Reading
Adams, Ansel. ‘‘Pirkle Jones: Photographer.’’U.S. Camera
MagazineOctober 1952: 40–42.
Holmes, Robert. ‘‘Pirkle Jones.’’British Journal of Photo-
graphy17 October, 1980: 1040–1041.
Jones, Pirkle.Pirkle Jones: California Photographs. New
York: Aperture, 2001.
Jones, Pirkle, and Ruth-Marion Baruch.The Vanguard: A
Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers. Boston: Bea-
con Press, 1970.
Jones, Pirkle, and Ruth Garner Begell, eds.Berryessa Val-
ley: The Last Year. Vacaville, California: Vacaville
Museum, 1994.
Jones, Pirkle, and Dorothea Lange. ‘‘Death of a Valley.’’
Aperture8, no. 3, (1960): 127–165.
Katzman, Louise.Photography in California 1945–1980.
New York: Hudson Hills Press/ San Francisco Museum
of Art, 1984.
Mezey, Phil. ‘‘Masters of the Darkroom’’: ‘In Tandem,’ an
Interview with Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones.’’
Darkroom Photography1, no. 7, (1979): 22–26.
Newhall, Nancy. ‘‘Pirkle Jones Portfolio.’’Aperture4, no.
2, 1956: 49–57.
Warren, Dody. ‘‘Perceptions: A Photographic Showing
from San Francisco.’’Aperture2, no. 4. 1954: 11–33.
Wride, Tim B. ‘‘Reconciling California: The Rediscovery of
Pirkle Jones.’’ InPirkle Jones: California Photographs.
New York: Aperture, 2001: 98–120.
KENNETH JOSEPHSON
American
When the journal Aperture published Kenneth
Josephson’sthesispicturesin1961inaspecial
issue devoted to five graduating students, it was a
sign that he was a photographer to watch, a photo-
grapher with the courage to experiment. Josephson’s
thesis subject was the ‘‘Exploration of the Multiple
Image,’’ and though his subsequent body of work
does not exclusively focus on the ‘‘multiple image,’’
his career, so to speak, does. While his finished
photographs largely take the form of silver prints,
his career has included work as a street photogra-
pher, filmmaker, conceptual photographer/artist,
and professor of photography. Since the early six-
ties, his diverse, prolific output has contributed to
changes in the perceptions of photography that
occurred simultaneously with photography’s accep-
tance by the art market and most museums.
Josephson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1932.
He took his first photographs around the age of 12
and soon was processing his own film and prints
independently. After high school, he studied at the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) from
1951–1953 and was trained in the technical aspects
of photo-chemistry and commercial photography
until he was drafted into the Army. He served for
two years in West Germany, printing photographs
for the U.S. Army. Upon his return to civilian life,
Josephson resumed his studies at RIT, where he was
a student of Minor White and Beaumont Newhall,
eventually graduating with a B.F.A. in 1957. Upon
his return to Detroit, he married and took a position
as a photographer for the Chrysler Corporation.Pirkle Jones, Unidentified Migrant Worker Brought to the
Valley for the Last Harvest, from the Series Death of a
Valley; 1956, printed 1960, gelatin silver print; 11^7 = 8 10 ¼^00
(30.1826.04 cm), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Gift of anonymous donor in memory of Merrily Page.
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