Jock Sturges

Jock Sturges (born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort at Montalivet, France. His work has been the subject of controversy.[1] Much of his work features Californian Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a young child until in her twenties.[2] In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers and his equipment seized. A Grand Jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him.[3]

Sturges graduated with a BFA in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.[4]. He primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera.

Published works

His published collections include:

Other noted publications include:

Limited Edition Portfolios of Original Photographs:

His photographs also appear as cover art on three novels by Jennifer McMahon, Promise Not to Tell, Island of Lost Girls and Dismantled, as well as Karl Ove Knausgård's 1998 debut novel Ute av verden (Out of the World).

External links

References

  1. ^ Photography Now website
  2. ^ Metapsychology website
  3. ^ Metro Magazine, March 1998
  4. ^ Koch Gallery website