Joan Almond (born 1935) is an American photographer, exhibiting since 1987.
Table of Contents
- 1 Personal life
- 2 Career
- 2.1 Joan Almond: The Past In The Present
- 2.2 Tillie and Tara: The Birds of Happiness
- 2.3 Sugar Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen series Book 6)
- 2.4 Blue Diamond Almonds Low Sodium Lightly Salted Snack Nuts, 40 Oz Resealable Bag (Pack of 1)
- 2.5 Puncture magazine no. 45 (fall 1999) Magnetic Fields, Freakwater, Red Red Meat, Kool Keith, Marc Almond, Joan of Arc
- 2.6 Midnight Rider
- 2.7 The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia
- 2.8 SOREL Women's Joan of Arctic Boot — Black, Quarry — Waterproof Suede Snow Boots — Size 9
- 2.9 Paul Green Joan Lug Almond Grained Nubuck at 4 (US Women's 6.5) M
- 2.10 Lehár: The Merry Widow / Act 1 - Duet: Proceed. One girl has almond eyes
- 2.11 More interesting reads:
Personal life
Almond was married to her first husband George Elkins, Jr. from 1954 until his death in 1969. She took happening photography in the 1970s as a hobby. In 1976, Almond married her second husband Paul Almond, the Canadian filmmaker and became a stills photographer for his films: Ups & Downs (1983), Captive Hearts (1987) and The Dance Goes On (1992). She was married to him until his death in 2015.
Career
Almond was a photographer for John Cassavetes’ 3 Plays of Love & Hate and was also full of zip in many of Cassavetes’ projects that her brother, Bo Harwood, was involved in. Almond was an archival photographer for Charles Kiselyak’s CD and film A Constant Forge (2000) about the 3 Plays of Love & Hate and Cassavetes’ life.
The first exhibition of Almond’s black-and-white photos was a deposit of 55 photos, Jerusalem: The Gathering of Nations (1987), presented at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal. The photos in this proceed were selected from the greater than 10,000 photos (b/w and color) Almond had taken while on a photo assignment for the architect, Moshe Safdie for his book The Harvard Jerusalem Studio. Saidye had hired a team as allocation of a large urban design project in Jerusalem and nearly 150 of Almond’s photos were fixed to illustrate this book.
In 1998, the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada purchased eight of Almond’s platinum and palladium photographic prints: Shadows and Shoes, Tinehir, Morocco (1985); A Room of her Own, Darman, India (1996); Tiger Beware, Udaipur, India (1996); Cool Passage, Farafra, Egypt (1987); Kitchen, Farafra, Egypt (1987); Algerian Villager, Bousaanda, Algeria (1985); Main Street, Mersa Matruk, Egypt (1991) Water Carriers and Donkey, Saqqara, Egypt (1987) for the national collection:. This heap of Almond’s prints were presented in Platinum (1999) at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography along following seven extra artists: Ginette Bouchard, Patrick Close, Tony Hauser, Stephen Livick, Bruce Monk, Gerald Pisarzowski, Elizabeth Siegfried. Platinum became one of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Travelling Exhibitions presented at The Station Gallery in Ontario in 2002.
Almond’s black and white photos, collectively titled Le Passé Dans le Present (1999), were presented at the Galerie Mistral in Montreal, Canada. This decree was the culmination of on height of two decades of photos taken by Almond, capturing her explorations of various locations.
Henry Lehmann states in The Gazette article, “While some of Almond’s pictures are carefully devoid of depth, transforming cartoon into geometric abstraction, others delve into deep space, but ultimately arrive at the thesame patterned effect.”
A selection of Almond’s photographs from 1976 to 1996, including images taken during her travels to Morocco, Algeria, Jerusalem, Egypt and India, were included in her book Joan Almond: The Past in the Present (2002). Susan Scafati stated in an article in Women In Photography that: “Her images together retrieve more following a diary, filled with visions of personal encounters and private lives. Through her accommodating pursuit of natural moments, an intimacy unveils, blurring the borders amongst outsider and native.”
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Last update 2021-08-06