Webstore closing Aug 10
Thanks to collectors over the years, most of my offset books, artists books, posters and press sheets are limited enough that the STORE will be closed permanently. Please visit and place orders if you wish to, but do it very soon. Thank you!
Museum of New Mexico exhibition and lecture.
Young B and the Pines, 1976 is one of the prints on view currently in Transgressions and Amplifications: Mixed-media Photography of the 1960s and 1970s.
Collecting Conversations: Ransom Center online presentation March 3.
You can register to watch my March 3rd conversation with Jessica McDonald at the Ransom Center about my career. https://allevents.in/online/collecting-conversations-bea-nettles/10000262260788077
In Conversation with Artists Bea Nettles & Joan Lyons
Listen to an in-depth conversation with artists Bea Nettles and Joan Lyons as they discuss their formative work from the 1970s and the photographic community in Rochester at that time, including Rochester Institute of Technology and Visual Studies Workshop.
More than Retro: Art Photography of the 1970s opens at MFA St Petersburg
My image St Croix Stairway is on view until April 3 at the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, Florida in a show entitled More Than Retro: Art Photography of the 1970s.
Playa Benefit Auction is now live.
You can bid on my Playa ABC book online at the benefit auction to support this residency in Southern Oregon for artists and scientists. The book was created in 2014 after a productive visit. Auction site
Eastman Museum reopens Harvest of Memory: July 9-October 10, 2021
The Eastman Museum has brought the Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory exhibition back to their galleries for visitors to explore in person.
Magic in the Everyday: NY Review of Books
Nicole Rudick has written an extensive review of Bea Nettles:Harvest of Memory with special mention of the book Flamingo in the Dark. The review can be read online at the New York Review of Books website.
Register for a Virtual Gallery Tour of Harvest of Memory
Join Curator Amy Powell for a virtual gallery tour and discussion with me of Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory.
Hunting “Goodenough” Days.
Recently I wrote a blog post for the University of Illinois about the production of Head Lines: Worlds Warning.
Harvest of Memory opens November 5-March 6 at the Krannert Museum, at the University of Illinois.
Visit the Krannert Museum’s website to book timed entry to Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory, a traveling retrospective featuring over 50 years of work. The show will be on view until March 6 as long as the University is open to the public.
Head Lines: Worlds Warning. A new book just released.
I have photographed almost seven thousand last names on headstones that are parts of speech. With these words I have created poems. Near this summer’s end, I wrote my chronology of the outbreak of COVID19 from its arrival through the end of August 2020: Head Lines: Worlds Warning.
Knights of Assisi: A Journey Through the Tarot
This 1990 fashion shoot was based on Tarot cards. The hand colored photographs are reproduced in this book which is now available at the store.
Temperance from Mountain Dream Tarot in Taschen’s Tarot book.
The chapter heading for Temperance features the original photograph from Mountain Dream Tarot published in 1975.