Frank Hunter photographs, 2010

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Summary

Creator:
Hunter, Frank
Abstract:
Frank Hunter is a documentary photographer and instructor known for his work in platinum/palladium photography. 34 platinum prints, sized from 20x24 to 24x30 inches, from Hunter's exhibit Still Point of the Turning World, which was displayed in 2010 in the Allen Building at Duke University. Hunter made the photographs with an 8x10 view camera in Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
Extent:
4 Linear Feet
4 Megabytes
34 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.00593

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes twenty 20x24 and fourteen 24x30 platinum photographs, and one DVD with electronic versions of the prints. The prints in this collection are from Hunter's exhibit, "Still Point of the Turning World," which was on display in 2010 in the Allen Building at Duke University. Prints include images of nature and its interactions with culture. Hunter made the photographs with an 8x10 view camera in Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. Acquired as part of the Archive for Documentary Arts.

The collection is sorted by the size of the images: there is one box with the 20x24 photographs and one with the 24x30 photographs.

Biographical / historical:

Frank Hunter was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up in the desert Southwest. He has an M.A. in communications from the University of Colorado and an M.F.A. in photography from Ohio University, where he was the John Cady Graduate Fellow in Fine Art. Hunter has taught at the university level for more than twenty years. His interest in photographic processes includes the technical process of exposure and development as well as the psychological and spiritual aspects of creating photographic work. Hunter is best known for his landscape photographs done in the nineteenth-century process known as platinum/palladium. His recent work includes a commission done for the Federal Reserve Bank documenting Midtown Atlanta at the turn of the millennium, which was shown at the High Museum in Atlanta in 2003. His work is represented in a number of public and private collections, including the Speed Museum, the Denver Museum of Art, the High Museum, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Hunter teaches at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.

(Biography written by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.)

Acquisition information:
The Frank Hunter Photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2010.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, August 2010

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, August 2010

Accession 2010-0141 is described in this finding aid.

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