Uta Barth’s photographic practice is fuelled by Untitled 2015.AA, UTA BARTH the question of how we perceive, versus what 2015 Inkjet print on heavy- we see. For the past thirty years, Uta Barth has Born weight matte paper taken photography as a means to conceptually 22 x 28 inches Berlin, Germany, 1958 and formally explore the phenomenology of perception, vision and conventions of picture- Edition of 1, 2 APs. Education Commissioned for making. Barth typically empties images of what BA, University of California, solo exhibition at Art would often be considered a traditional subject Institute of Chicago. Davis, 1982 matter or narrative to challenge the purported MFA, University of California, equivalence between content and subject Los Angeles, 1985 in photography. Engaging with the ambient, ephemeral and subliminal of everyday life, she Proceeds from this sale directly instead uses photography to create images that support SFAI’s new Graduate Center trace light, duration and time. at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale Ruth Bernhard began her career as a commercial Receding Tide, 1970 RUTH photographer in the late 1920s in Manhattan. Gelation silver Print 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches BERNHARD She was deeply inspired by Edward Weston, eventually becoming a part of the Modernist Signed on front and West Coast Photographic Movement. In the verso with date and title Born 1940s, Bernhard joined Weston, Ansel Adams, Berlin, Germany, 1905 Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, and Dorothea Lange in Group f.64. Died San Francisco, CA, 2006 Bernhard primarily photographed in her studio and in black and white, making compositions Education of still lifes and dramatically lit nude figures. Berlin Academy of Art, 1925-27 Although she is most often recognized for her photographs of nude women, Bernhard’s main Proceeds from this sale directly aspirations revolved around the formal discipline support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & of creating abstract shapes and sculptural Culture, opening Fall 2017. masses using composition, light, and shadow. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale LINDA CONNOR Born New York, NY, 1948 Education BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, 1967 MS, Illinois Institute of Design, 1969 Since the late 1960s, Linda Connor has been teaching in the Photography department at SFAI and exhibiting, publishing, and teaching nationally and internationally. In 2002, she founded PhotoAlliance, a Bay Area non-profit organization dedicated to the understanding, appreciation, and creation of contemporary photography, and currently serves as its president. She has had a long and distinguished career in photography, and has traveled extensively to produce her work, including to India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, and South East Asia. Recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, Connor was also given the Society of Photographic Education’s Honored Educator Award in 2005. September 3,1895, 2015 Printed on aluminum 10 x 8 inches Proceeds from this sale directly support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM Born Portland, OR, 1883 Died San Francisco, CA, 1976 Education University of Washington, 1907 Imogen Cunningham was a true artistic pioneer in 20th-Century photography. While her early work was made in the tradition of Pictorialism, by the 1920s she was experimenting with the sharp definition and detailed study of natural forms and plant life associated with the West Coast Modernist movement. Cunningham was a founding member of Group f.64 together with Willard Van Dyke, Ansel Adams and others. In 1945, she joined the faculty of the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) where she continued to teach and be an important mentor to students and faculty through the 1970s. Agave Design I, 1920 Gelatin silver print from the original on December 10, 1997 22 x 28 inches Proceeds from this sale directly support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale JUDY DATER Born Hollywood, CA, 1941 Education BA, San Francisco State University, 1963 MFA, San Francisco State University, Judy Dater’s early interest in painting, drawing, film, and photography took her to UCLA where she majored in Art. At the age of 20 she moved north to finish her education at San Francisco State University. Here she embraced photography as her chosen medium, and used it to explore the Bohemian counter culture life that now surrounded her. This led to an enduring interest in photographing people from all walks of life, drawing on their humanity and soulfulness. Dater has exhibited widely and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Grants. Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston) 2015 Archival pigment Print 20 x 16 1/4 inches Proceeds from this sale directly support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale KATY GRANNAN Born Arlington, MA, 1969 Education BA, University of Pennsylvania MFA, Yale School of Art Katy Grannan, originally from Arlington, MA, discovered a passion for photography early in life, after her grandmother gave her a Kodak Instamatic 124. She never aspired to be an artist until she discovered Robert Frank and his indelible photographs in The Americans. This work changed her life. Grannan was first recognized for an intimate series of portraits depicting strangers she met through newspaper advertisements. Since moving to California in 2006, Grannan has explored the relationship between aspiration and delusion—where our shared desire to be of worth confronts the uneasy prospect of anonymity. Anonymous, San Francisco, 2009 Printed in 2015 Pigment print 18 7/8 x 14 1/16 inches Edition 1/1. Gifted to Proceeds from this sale directly San Francisco Art Institute. support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Signed and dated verso Culture, opening Fall 2017. on label in ink. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale CATHERINE OPIE Born Sandusky, Ohio, 1961 Education BA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1985 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, 1988 Catherine Opie’s photographs include series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large- scale color works to smaller black and whiteprints. Moving from the territory of the body to the framework of the city, Opie’s various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture. In 2000, she was appointed Professor of Fine Art at Yale University, and in 2001 she accepted the position of Professor of Photography at the University of California, Los Angeles, which she currently holds. The Falls, 2015 Pigment Print 22 x 14 inches Special print for San Francisco Art Institute. Signed verso. Proceeds from this sale directly support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale NIGEL POOR Born Boston, MA, 1963 Education BA, Bennington College, 1986 Before moving to California, SFAI’s reputation loomed large for Nigel Poor, and in 1992, after arriving in San Francisco, she got in touch with professor Linda Connor, who kindly welcomed her to the photography community. She taught at SFAI for several semesters, and remains a committed supporter of the school and art community it fosters. Poor’s work has been shown at San Jose Museum of Art, Friends of Photography, SF Camerawork, SFMOMA, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Haines Gallery. She is a Professor at California State University, Sacramento and a producer for the San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project. Remainders: god, sex & animals talking, 2012 Inkjet Print 20 x 16 inches Edition 2/3. From Remainders: god, sex & animals talking. Proceeds from this sale directly support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale ELISABETH SUNDAY Born Cleveland, OH, 1958 Education BA, Humboldt State University, 1980 Elisabeth Sunday has been photographing indigenous people across the African continent for the last 26 years. Using a flexible mirror she created for the purpose (and hand carries unaccompanied to some of the most remote and dangerous spots on earth), Sunday has created her own analog process that prefigured Photoshop that she calls “Mirror Photography.” Her method of photographing her subjects emphasizes and enhances their grace, elongating the body and the folds of their garments, creating an impressionistic effect. Although Sunday herself is never visible in the frame, she is as much actor as she is director within the drama of these photographs. Emerge, 2007 Silver print 16 x 20 inches Edition 1/10. Image of Tuareg Woman Proceeds from this sale directly The Sahara Desert, support SFAI’s new Graduate Center at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Mali. Culture, opening Fall 2017. Visit sfai.edu/art_sale CATHERINE Catherine Wagner is an active international artist Artemis/Diana, 2014 working in photography and installation and site- Archival pigment print 27 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches WAGNER specific public art, and lectures extensively. Her process involves the investigation of what art critic From the Rome Works David Bonetti calls “the systems people create, collection. Born our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, Artist prototype print. San Francisco, CA, 1953 the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves.” Education San Francisco State University, 1977 Wagner is a recipient of the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowships, and the Ferguson Award, and was named one of Time Proceeds from this sale directly Magazine’s Fine Arts Innovators of the Year.