Amanda Means
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Amanda Means is an American artist and photographer. She received a BA from Cornell University
in 1969 and a MFA in Photography from SUNY Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop) in 1978. In 1976 she attended the Aperion Workshops and studied under Ralph Gibson
. She is a master black and white printer having made prints for clients such as Robert Mapplethorpe
, Roni Horn
, and the Smithsonian Institution
. Means has primarily focused on camera-less photography, using objects (such as leaves, light bulbs, and water glasses) instead of photographic negatives to produce her prints. Her work has been collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Whitney Museum of American Art
. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, NY. She has had a special exhibition of her photographs of leaves at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
.
Means has taught at various universities and art schools including SUNY Plattsburgh (1989); Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1992); University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (1992); St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY (1999); International Center of Photography, NY, NY (2000); Parsons School of Design, NY, NY (2001); University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (2001); Pratt Institute, NY, NY (2002).
She has also been a Contributing Editor for Bomb Magazine
since 1984.
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1969 and a MFA in Photography from SUNY Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop) in 1978. In 1976 she attended the Aperion Workshops and studied under Ralph Gibson
Ralph Gibson
Ralph Gibson is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition.Ralph Gibson studied photography while in the US Navy and...
. She is a master black and white printer having made prints for clients such as Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
, Roni Horn
Roni Horn
Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. Horn's oeuvre, which spans almost four decades, encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation. The granddaughter of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, she was born in New York and lives and works in New York...
, and the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
. Means has primarily focused on camera-less photography, using objects (such as leaves, light bulbs, and water glasses) instead of photographic negatives to produce her prints. Her work has been collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, NY. She has had a special exhibition of her photographs of leaves at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.It has three parts:* the Harvard University Herbaria* the Museum of Comparative Zoology* the Harvard Mineralogical Museum....
.
Means has taught at various universities and art schools including SUNY Plattsburgh (1989); Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1992); University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (1992); St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY (1999); International Center of Photography, NY, NY (2000); Parsons School of Design, NY, NY (2001); University of Memphis, Memphis, TN (2001); Pratt Institute, NY, NY (2002).
She has also been a Contributing Editor for Bomb Magazine
Bomb Magazine
BOMB is a quarterly magazine edited by artists and writers. It is composed, primarily, of interviews between creative people working in a variety of disciplines — visual art, literature, music, film, theater and architecture....
since 1984.