James B Abbott
Tuscan Landscape in Moonlight, 2024
Photography
Artist proof, pigment ink print on moab metalic paper
12" x 9"

Artist Statement

For over ten years I have taught and photographed in Italy working on several bodies of work at the same time. From the small Tuscan town I was based in I would approach the surrounding landscape differently each year. This image is the begining of my newest approach to this landscape which is to work after sunset with only the moon as the primary source of illumination.

Artist Bio

Bio James B Abbott Photographer
James B Abbott, a photographer, arrived in Philadelphia in 1981 and, from his first loft seventy five feet from the Ben Franklin Bridge began photographing the bridge and its neglected riverfront neighborhood.
Abbott graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI, and over the course of thirty years has received numerous, grants, awards, residencies, commissions, and maintained a freelance photography practice. His fellowships include two Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowship Awards, a fellowship with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, 2013 Artist fellowship from the Independence Foundation for his Berlin: Landscape of Memory Project. In 201. Past appointments include serving as
photographer to the Stieglitz Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gallery Director for Aperture's Burden Gallery and Exhibit231, as well as teaching at the Penland School of Crafts, University of the Arts, Philadelphia University, and Tyler School of Arts. And for the last ten years Abbott had been teaching in the Italy Intensives Program of East Carolina University in Certaldo, Italy.

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