DOCUMENTAÇÃO
CURSOS e ORIENTAÇÕES
Norma I. Quintana
Categoria (época de atuação)
1890 - 2000
Nascimento
1954
Naturalidade
Porto-riquenha
Biography
“Norma I. Quintana is an American photographer and educator based in California. Born in Cleveland Ohio, she earned a Masters in Social Sciences from Case Western University and worked in human resources during her corporate career. Quintana began her career in documentary photography in the late 90s, attending Napa Valley College for a photography degree completed in 2001.
Quintana has also studied with such influential photographers as Mary Ellen Mark, Shelby Lee Adams, and Graciela Iturbide from Mexico. She works in the tradition of social documentary—primarily in black and white, analog photography. Collaboration is essential to her process. The images, Quintana insists, would not be possible without her subjects’ willingness to reveal themselves.
Her initial project documenting a one-ring American circus took her over a decade. Following the same group of tight-knit performers, she embedded herself behind the scenes. Images from her series Circus: A Traveling Life have been exhibited around the world and were published as a monograph by Damiani Editore and distributed by D.A.P. Artbook Catalog in 2014.
Quintana’s portrait series Forget Me Not is an archival project inspired by her family’s immigration from Puerto Rico. Based on photo-booth images she collected from relatives, she recreated the backdrop and wooden stand to capture a variety of characters in her community. The collection has traveled to Washington DC and Norma continues to develop the project with hopes of returning to Puerto Rico for more research.
Quintana's recent Forage From Fire series documents the excavation of objects and memories after California wildfires destroyed her home and studio. Documented with her iPhone X as she sifted through the ruins, the images of jewelry, camera bodies, Christmas ornaments, pendants, doll parts, kitchen tools and picture frames represent not only a collection of memories, but also a path to recovery.
Works from this series were exhibited in 2018 in a solo exhibition at SF Camerawork and included in group exhibitions in Sonoma and Napa, CA. Forage From Fire is currently included in the exhibition Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West originated at the California Museum of Photography and now traveling to St. George Art Museum, Utah; Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Washington; and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah.
Quintana is a founding member of the Bay Area non-profit PhotoAlliance and has lectured nationally at Stanford University, UCLA, American University, Penn State University, NYC and internationally in Madrid, Spain”
Reference: https://normaiquintana.com/about
Quintana has also studied with such influential photographers as Mary Ellen Mark, Shelby Lee Adams, and Graciela Iturbide from Mexico. She works in the tradition of social documentary—primarily in black and white, analog photography. Collaboration is essential to her process. The images, Quintana insists, would not be possible without her subjects’ willingness to reveal themselves.
Her initial project documenting a one-ring American circus took her over a decade. Following the same group of tight-knit performers, she embedded herself behind the scenes. Images from her series Circus: A Traveling Life have been exhibited around the world and were published as a monograph by Damiani Editore and distributed by D.A.P. Artbook Catalog in 2014.
Quintana’s portrait series Forget Me Not is an archival project inspired by her family’s immigration from Puerto Rico. Based on photo-booth images she collected from relatives, she recreated the backdrop and wooden stand to capture a variety of characters in her community. The collection has traveled to Washington DC and Norma continues to develop the project with hopes of returning to Puerto Rico for more research.
Quintana's recent Forage From Fire series documents the excavation of objects and memories after California wildfires destroyed her home and studio. Documented with her iPhone X as she sifted through the ruins, the images of jewelry, camera bodies, Christmas ornaments, pendants, doll parts, kitchen tools and picture frames represent not only a collection of memories, but also a path to recovery.
Works from this series were exhibited in 2018 in a solo exhibition at SF Camerawork and included in group exhibitions in Sonoma and Napa, CA. Forage From Fire is currently included in the exhibition Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New West originated at the California Museum of Photography and now traveling to St. George Art Museum, Utah; Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Washington; and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah.
Quintana is a founding member of the Bay Area non-profit PhotoAlliance and has lectured nationally at Stanford University, UCLA, American University, Penn State University, NYC and internationally in Madrid, Spain”
Reference: https://normaiquintana.com/about
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