Extraordinary Interpretations - Monroe, Gary

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Résumé :
Gary Monroe, a native of Miami Beach, has photographed throughout Brazil, Israel, Cuba, India, Trinidad, Poland, and Egypt, among other international destinations. He is best known for his long-term photographic involvements with the elderly's old world culture of South Beach, Haiti during the end of the Duvalier regime and foray into democracy, and tourism as a rite of passage. He has received various honors and distinctions for his work, including two National Endowments for the Arts, four Florida Humanities Council Fellowships, a State of Florida arts fellowship, and two Fulbright Foundation fellowships. Monroe is the author of The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters and three other books on Florida's Highwaymen artists. He has written nine books, most of which acknowledge unrecognized self-taught Florida artists. His most recent book, E. G. Barnhill: Florida Photographer, Adventurer, Entrepreneur, highlights the artist's hand-colored photographs....

Biographie:
Gary Monroe, professor of visual art at Daytona State College, is the author of The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters (UPF, 2001), Life in South Beach, and Florida Dreams and coeditor of Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community (UPF, 2000), in which his documentary photographs appear....

Sommaire:
Gary Monroe, professor of visual art at Daytona State College, is the author of The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters (UPF, 2001), Life in South Beach, and Florida Dreams and coeditor of Cassadaga: The South's Oldest Spiritualist Community (UPF, 2000), in which his documentary photographs appear....