BEA NETTLES

[sasah zib]

(b.1946-) https://www.eastman.org/bea-nettles-harvest-memory-0
"Bea Nettles explores the narrative potential of photography through constructed images often made with alternative photographic processes. The first large-scale retrospective of her fifty-year career, Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memorydemonstrates this celebrated artist’s experimental approaches to art-making. Combining craft and photography, Nettles’s work makes use of wide-ranging tools and materials, including fabric and stitching, instamatic cameras, the book format, manually applied color, and hand-coated photographic emulsions. Her imagery evokes metaphors that reference key stages in the lives of women, often with autobiographic undertones, and her key motifs draw upon mythology, family, motherhood, place, landscape, dreams, aging, and the passage of time."

Her site bio: https://beanettles.com/bio
Some work from her store: https://beanettles.com/store

 

[BrianShaw]

Very appropriate! She was my initial inspiration (and instruction, via her book) in alternative process printing. I bought several other books on the topic since and find myself going back to hers often. Straightforward and visually inspirational.

 

[sasah zib]

@BrianShaw I assume you mean her "breaking the rules"
She was a strong influence (along with Betty Hahn http://www.bettyhahn.com/page15302.htm ) on alt process of the 'transition years.'
Bea Nettles took an overview class of Dye Transfer (Imbibition printing) in '83; her portfolios of 84 were mostly dyes.