Jennette Williams photographs, 2000-2006

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Summary

Creator:
Williams, Jennette
Abstract:
Documentary photographer and instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Fourth recipient of the biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography in 2008. (Acc. 2009-0141, 2009-0245, and 2009-0246) (14 items; 4.0 lin. ft.; dated 2000-2006) includes 10 (20x24) platinum/palladium contact prints and 3 (20x24) pigment ink on rice paper images from Williams' book, The Bathers, featuring women bathing and lounging in Turkish and Hungarian bathhouses. Also includes a CD of an artist talk given by Williams at an exhibit opening in 2009. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts (Duke University).
Extent:
4 Linear Feet
14 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.01388

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes 13 prints from The Bathers, Williams' winning entry for the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize. Prints are 20x24, and feature women bathing and lounging in steam rooms and bathhouses in Istanbul and Budapest. Ten of the images are platinum/palladium contact prints, and the remaining three are pigment ink on rice paper.

This collection also includes a CD with an artist talk, given by Williams at the opening of the Duke exhibit of The Bathers in 2009. This item has been transferred to Duke's electronic server.

Biographical / historical:

Jennette Williams is a documentary photographer and an instructor in fine arts photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work, The Bathers, was selected as the 2008 winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, and was published as a book by Duke University Press in 2009.

Williams is originally from New York, and has a master's degree from Yale University. She has previously been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, a Golden Light Award, and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She began photographing women exercising in swimming pools in Manhattan, and gradually expanded her project to focus on women bathers worldwide.

Acquisition information:
The Jennette Williams Photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase and a gift in 2009.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, March 2010

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, March 2010

Materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2009-0141, 2009-0245, 2009-0246

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