The confident ease with which all his subjects present themselves to his camera is evidence of rare levels of trust and friendship. Sturges describes his work as “identity driven” because his portraits represent collaborations that stretch over entire life times. Made over a period of 23 years, the images are at once beautiful in their detail of light and identity, as well as frankly anthropological in their descriptive effect. Former Northfield Mount Hermon teacher John Jock' Sturges, 74, was sentenced to three years of probation this week after pleading guilty in Franklin Superior Court to a charge of an unnatural and lascivious act on a child under 16, according to a statement Tuesday from the Northwestern district attorneys office. Fanny is an extended portrait of a young girl's transition from child to woman. The large color plates in Life Time represent almost perfect one to one translations of the original transparencies and are rich with detail and physical and psychological nuance. Edited with introduction by Walter Keller. Working with the same models and their families in his long-term studies of growth, change and relationship, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. Life Time presents a broad range of this color work for the first time and carries forward his extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities and on French naturist beaches. Long known for his radiant black and white naturist portraiture, Jock Sturges has also been quietly working in color for more than two decades.
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