John Barnard
USA

Nominee

"Junkyard Nude Ser 16, No5"

Nature offers formal structures. Junkyards offer manufactured structures.

Biography: Early background: John’s mother would take him and his brothers to the Sierras when he was a kid. She would tell them stories of going on extended hikes with Ansel Adams into the back county. She explained why his photographs were special. John didn’t understand at the time why this was so but landscape photography was to become a major pursuit later in his life. It was when he was photographing in the Himalayas that he started to understand what Adams was trying to communicate. HIs parents were friends of Imogen Cunningham and hired her to take family pictures of him and his...