Vintage 35mm Glass Slides (51) Nettles & Hallman - Bea Nettles, Gary Hallman Photo Set

Nettles has been exhibiting and publishing her semi-autobiographical works since 1970. She taught photography and artists��� books from 1970���2007 at Rochester Institute of Technology, Tyler School of Art, and the University of Illinois where she is currently professor emerita. She has had over fifty one-person exhibitions including George Eastman House, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Light Gallery and Witkin Gallery in New York City.

Nettles is known for experimenting with alternative photographic processes. She utilizes several photo-mechanical printing techniques such as photolithography and silkscreen.^[3]

Nettles' work tackles issues of family relationships, woven together with mythology and natural history, often in dream-like juxtapositions. Like many feminists of her generation, she used her own body to explore the ways in which personal identities also reflected political and social realities. Art historian Jonathan Fineberg wrote that Nettles' 1970 "Suzanna...Surprised," for example, "demonstrated in the uneven brown-stained surface...the defiant subject matter.... She stuffed this unmistakably confrontational nude self-portrait and sewed it around the edges, then fixed it on to a faint image of a formal garden."^[4] Of Turning 50 (first published in 1995) critic Amber Hares wrote: "What is most noteworthy about Turning 50 is that Nettles, finding beauty in veins as she does in the vines that run up trees, is aging with grace."^[5]

In her later career, Nettles has excelled in book arts, teaching classes at the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois. She has traveled extensively, leading workshops on book-binding and book arts in Iceland, Italy and Alaska. She has also reflected on her earlier career through new collages and composite images, such as "Return Trips." Art historian Jordana Mendelson wrote of these juxtapositions: "When Nettles reuses a photograph from an earlier work and combines these new works with her mother's poetry, we are reminded of core ideas shared between generations in the Nettles family who have made the creative act an integral part of their lives."^[6]

Gary L. Hallman | American, 1940 -

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hallman received his BA in Political Science in 1966 and his MFA in Photography in 1971, both from the University of Minnesota.

Known for both his 1970s survey work (Minnesota Survey Project, which included other notable photographers: Frank Gohlke, Stuart Klipper and Tom Arndt), where he systematically documented the regional architecture of grain elevators and their surrounding environments, as well as his large-scale photographs that explore the limits of straight photography through setting up situations that forced very loose control and unpredictable conditions in which ordinary objects and banal sites became visually and conceptually layered through the use of flash, methods of delineation and isolation, and print-toning methods.

Selected exhibitions include: Twentieth Century American Photography, Nelson-Atkins Gallery (1974), 14 American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art (1975), Light Gallery (1975), Mirrors and Windows American Photography Since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, (1978), The Minnesota Survey Project, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, (1978), The Photographer���s Hand, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (1979), Photography: Recent Discoveries, De Cordova Museum (1980), Big Pictures by Contemporary Photographers, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC (1983).

Hallman received a National Endowment for the Art Photography Survey Grant in 1976-77 and He received a National Endowment for the Art Photographer���s Fellowship in 1975.

His photographs are included in numerous collections, including: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Art Institute of Chicago; De Cordova Museum; Fogg Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Minneapolis Institute of the Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York