The Vernacular Bestiary (ePub)
Vernacular means amateur snapshots.
Bestiary is a lot of animals.
Each page also contains a quotation to give additional meaning....
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The Vernacular Bestiary is a collection of snapshots of animals that go from A to Z.
Vernacular means amateur snapshots.
Bestiary is a lot of animals.
Each page also contains a quotation to give additional meaning.
This collection was built up over a 30 year period by John Nichols, owner of the John Nichols Gallery.
The Vernacular Bestiary has been exhibited at several museums and public schools and viewers were encouraged to write poems about their vavorite animal in the exhibit. These poems were displayed along side the photos of each animal.
As an independent curator and photo historian he developed several exhibits on the St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928 for the California Oil Museum. All that research led to his first book in 2002 for Arcadia titled St. Francis Dam Disaster.
In 2010 John was selected to be interviewed and documented by Focus on the Masters. Focus on the Masters is a non-profit art appreciation program that documents, preserves and presents the works and lives of accomplished contemporary artists. Their archive includes oral histories, video taped interviews, photographic portraits and examples of the artists' work.
Photographs by John Nichols are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Ventura County, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Univ. of Austin, Texas, the Jackson Wheeler Collection (promised gift to the Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard), The Santa Paula Art Museum, the City of Ventura, the Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura and numerous private collections. Selected exhibits include the Santa Paula Art Museum, the California Oil Museum, the Museum of Ventura County, Ojai Art Center, Ojai Valley Museum, Annual Santa Paula Art and Photography Show, Carnegie Art Museum and others.
In 1984 he opened John Nichols Gallery.com in historic downtown Santa Paula to exhibit and promote vintage and contemporary photography and art. He has curated numerous art and history exhibits throughout Ventura County. In 1974 he joined the stage crew at the Monterey Jazz Festival and is currently the stage manager of the Garden Stage.
For several years he has been
- Autor: John Nichols
- 2020, Englisch
- Verlag: John Nichols
- ISBN-10: 1393640214
- ISBN-13: 9781393640219
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2020
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