Judy Dater
Born 1941, Hollywood
1959-1962 University of California, Los Angeles
1963 BA San Francisco State University
1966 MA San Francisco State University
Selected museum exhibitions: de Young Museum, San Francisco (2018); St.Mary's College, Moraga, California (2013); California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (1996); International Center of Photography, New York (1994); University of Maryland,Baltimore County (1988); DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California (1986); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1984); Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (1979); Oakland Museum, California (1975)
Selected honors: Visiting artist, American Academy in Rome (1998, 2006); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1978); Dorothea Lange Award, Oakland Museum (1974)
Selected public collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; International Center for Photography, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Oakland Museum, California; Tate Modern, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (1974) pictures the encounter of famed photographer Imogen Cunningham and model Twinka Thiebaud (the daughter of painter Wayne Thiebaud). Taken during a photographic workshop in the national park, Judy Dater was inspired by Thomas Hart Benton’s painting Persephone (1939), with its themes of nudity and voyeurism. Emerging as a photographer with the advent of the feminist movement, Dater has championed an approach to the body that avoids objectification.