John Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes, in order to make unique photographs that use the direct exposure of light onto reversal film and paper. Each resulting photograph is a singular, luminous object. This highly anticipated first book includes the surreal and thrilling landscape and architectural images for which the artist has become known. John Chiara: California features images taken in the artist's hometown of San Francisco and other locations along the Pacific Coast. An essay by Virginia Heckert situates Chiara's work in the landscape tradition of the American West and discusses this process-driven work.

Author: John Chiara
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 11/17/2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 3.6lbs
Size: 12.70h x 11.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781597114233

About the Author
Chiara, John: - John Chiara received a BFA in photography from the University of Utah in 1995 and an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. Chiara was Artist in Residence at Budapest Art Factory (2017); Crown Point Press, San Francisco (2006, 2016); Porch Society, Clarksdale, Mississippi (2013-14); Gallery Four, Baltimore (2010); and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2010). In 2011 and 2013, the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco commissioned work that was included in two group exhibitions at Pier 24 Photography: HERE and A Sense of Place.Heckert, Virginia: - Virginia Heckert is photography curator and head of the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; she is the curator of Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography and author of the accompanying catalogue (2015). Her other books include Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments (2013) and Irving Penn: Small Trades (2009), coauthored with Anne Lacoste.