Names: | Born: Sandra Louise Skoglund
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| Dates: | 1946, 11 September - | Born: | US, MA, Weymouth | Active: | US | Website: | www.sandyskoglund.com | American sculptor, installation artist and photographer. Her gray rooms with green cats or goldfish are extraordinary.Preparing biographies
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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. [NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.] | Show on this site | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Bauret, Gabriel (ed. and text) 2001 Color Photography (New York: Assouline) [Includes example color photographs by Sandy Skoglund] • Koetzle, Hans-Michael 2002 Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures - Volume 2 (Koln: Taschen) [This book discusses one photograph "Revenge of the Goldfish (1981)" by Sandy Skoglund in considerable detail. An excellent source for a detailed analysis.] • Lahs-Gonzales, Olivia & Lippard, Lucy 1997 Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century. Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection (Saint Louis Art Museum, D.A.P.) [Sandy Skoglund is included in this overview of women photographers.]
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