John Charles Woods has been photographing for over 40 years. His personal work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, the Philippines and Europe. This includes more than 50 one-man exhibitions and group shows. Public collections of Woods' photographs include the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, The Polaroid Corporation, the Oriental Photo Corporation collection, the Ansel Adams Archives, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Helmut Gernsheim collection, the University of Alaska and the Photographic Art Museum in Australia.
Woods has produced four limited-edition portfolios and several limited-edition posters of his work. He is the author of two textbooks on the craft of photography The Zone System Craft Book and The View Camera Craft Book. Woods' definitive biography of photographer Brett Weston, A Restless Eye, was released in July 2011. Other writings include a memoir of Woods' association with photographer Brett Weston that is featured in Ken Markus' 2003 publication Dune - The Sand Dune Photographs of Edward and Brett Weston. He also authored "Ansel Adams, Cave Photographer" for Lois Mannos' 2009 book Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns through the Artist’s Eye.
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abstract art, black and white photography, Biography, California, Death Valley, Fine-art, Mojave desert, Photographers, Photography, Photography, developing and developers, Photography, exposure, West-coast photography, Zone system (Photography), abstract photography, desert photogaphs, fine art photography, fine-art photography, history of photography, landscape photography, photographic dynasty, photographic portfolios, photography, printmaking, sensitometry, the Weston familyPeople
Alfred Steiglitz, Ansel Adams, Beaumont Newhall, Cole Weston, David McAlpin, Diego Rivera, Dody Thompson, Edward Weston, Richard Miller, Tina ModottiID Numbers
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