The gallery has two exhibition spaces and rotates exhibits every two months. Jackson Fine Art is located at 3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. With a focus on a blend of 20th century and contemporary work, she continues her commitment to the arts in Atlanta and beyond. Walker Skillman is honored to continue a reputation of excellence in exhibiting photography by both emerging and established artists.
In March of 2003, she purchased Jackson Fine Art from Jane Jackson, who became curator of the prestigious collection of Sir Elton John. Murphy to help establish his career, Anna turned to photography and joined Jackson Fine Art in 1997.
In 1993, Anna moved to Atlanta to manage the studio of Atlanta artist Todd Murphy. Graduated in Art History from the University of Georgia in 1991, she began her career working at the Haines Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery in San Francisco. Among her current projects are James Welling: Choreograph (2020), Breaking the Rules: Six Women Fashion Photographers (2021), and a retrospective of Nickolas Muray’s photography that will open in 2023.Īnna Walker Skillman has been a loyal and active participant in the arts community for the last 29 years. She has also curated several shows that were the first museum exhibitions of new bodies of work, including Tanya Marcuse: Woven (2019), Gail Albert Halaban: Out My Window (2018), and Brian Ulrich: The Centurion (2015). Major exhibitions she has curated with accompanying publications are David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire (2018) Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time (with April Watson, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2017) A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age (2016) Color Rush: American Color Photography from Stieglitz to Sherman (with Kate Bussard, Princeton University Art Museum, 2013) and Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography (2010). She earned her PhD from Princeton University with a dissertation on photographer Louis Faurer while working as a research associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has held previous positions as the McEvoy Family Curator of Photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and as Curator of Photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Lisa Hostetler is curator in charge of the Department of Photography at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY. In making a smooth transition from autocracy to democracy, the pact ensured that there were no prosecutions for persons responsible for human rights violations or other atrocities and crimes… ensured that difficult questions about the recent past were suppressed for fear of endangering 'national reconciliation' and the restoration of liberal-democratic freedoms.”Īgterberg writes: “The project looks widely through the reconstruction of memory at how society can cope with atrocity … and investigates how forgetting became a political tool.” The project, which includes staged documentary-style photos as well as real archival images, examines an unusual national law that was put into place in Spain in 1977 after the death of the dictator, Franco.Īccording to Wikipedia, the Pact of Forgetting (Spanish: Pacto del olvido) “was an attempt to put the past behind them and concentrate on the future of Spain.
These photos seem alive somehow, and infused with a silent menace that made me want to dig deeper into the story behind them. We hope you will discover some true inspiration here! These photographs will still hold their seductive power many years from now. It somehow lets you “see” everything that is in front of the camera with heightened vision. The work you will discover here includes an astonishing range of artistic approaches, too, from hybrid mixes of documentary and fiction, to reportage, self-portraits, philosophical meditations, street photography, studio work, and appreciation of everyday natural beauty.īlack and white photography is like a language of its own, with arresting qualities that sear directly into your consciousness. It was especially refreshing to discover so much great new work in black and white that seems current and relevant to multiple global concerns and challenges of 2020. Photographers from more than 120 countries responded to our international call for entries, and after extended review and passionate discussion by the jury, these 39 photographers were selected as the best. We’re delighted to announce the winners, jurors’ picks and finalists of the 2020 LensCulture Black & White Awards.
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