Martina López

Martina Lopez (born 1962) is an American photographer known for her digital media works combining landscapes and 19th-century portraiture. She is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, although she is originally from Seattle, Washington.

Martina Lopez
Born1962 (age 60–61)[1]
Seattle, WA

Early life and education

Raised in a white middle-class neighborhood in Seattle, with seven other siblings of second generation Mexican descent, Lopez found inspiration in her personal life for her works. As a photography student at the University of Washington in 1986, she dabbled in digital images. While still in school, her father died and Lopez turned to old photo albums to reminisce, when she did this the photos awoke a curiosity and she became inspired to rewrite the narratives differently than what the photographs presented.[2]

Lopez has a Bachelor's degree from University of Washington in Seattle, and a Master's degree in 1990 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a professor of Photography in the Art History department at the University of Notre Dame.[3]

Collections

Lopez's work has been held at The Crossroads Gallery for Contemporary Art, in which curator David Travis writes an extensive description of her work in relation to the collection.[4]

Other museums holding her work include the Seoul Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum[1] and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Honors and awards

Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Photography Fellowship.[5]

Publications
  • Aperture Magazine, Portfolios 1: Computer Photomontage (1994)
  • Naomi Rosenblum's A World History of Photography[6]
  • The Digital Eye by Silvia Wolf[7]
  • 100 Ideas That Changed Photography by Mary Warner Marien[8]
  • Digital Photography: Truth, Meaning, Aesthetics by Steven Skopik[9]

Bibliography
  • Sylvia Wolf,(1995). Memory/Reference: The Digital Photography of Martina Lopez, The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Aperture (1994) Vol.136, Martina Lopez, ISSN 0003-6420
  • Newsweek (1994), Barbara Kantrowitz, Vol.124, An Evolving Technoculture, ISSN 0028-9604

References
  1. "Martina Lopez | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. "Between Reason". Martina Lopez. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  3. "Martina Lopez's Professor Profile".
  4. "David Travis' Essay on Martina Lopez" (PDF).
  5. "Biography". Martina Lopez. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  6. Rosenblum, Naomi: World history of photography. New York : Abbeville Press, 1997, OCLC 605585437
  7. The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, Prestel Publishing©2010, ISBN 9783791343181
  8. 100 Ideas that Changed Photography, Laurence King Publishing (October 24, 2012), ISBN 1856697967
  9. "Steven Skopik's Article" (PDF).
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