Background
Babcock, Jo was born on February 24, 1954 in St. Louis. Son of Boyd Leon and Shirley Lynn (Hamm) Babcock.
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Essays. Art. A new gathering of celebrated artist Jo Babcock's low-tech photographs, THE INVENTED CAMERA pairs the artist's haunting photographs with images of the homemade cameras that produced them, made from suitcases, paint cans, and soap boxes. This unique format, along with an introduction by Bill Berkson and essay by Douglas R. Nickel, offers a fresh perspective on the artist's work. "Rawness bespeaks actuality. The evidence here is the fact of something having been photographed, sans any pretense that what we see is an exact graphic replica. Process and product both intimate how strange photographic mimesis ultimately is"--Bill Berkson, from the Introduction.
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Babcock, Jo was born on February 24, 1954 in St. Louis. Son of Boyd Leon and Shirley Lynn (Hamm) Babcock.
Student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975; Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976; Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1979.
Color and black and white printer Rolling Stone magazine, San Francisco, 1976, Outside magazine, San Francisco, 1977. Cameraman 1st California Press, 1977-1980. Electrician Brothers Electric, 1984-1989.
Exhibit designer Levi Strauss & Company, 1989—2004. Associate professor San Francisco Art Institute, 1989-1993, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1991. Associate professor photography faculty Academy Art University, San Francisco, 2006—2010.
Photo history teacher. Photo alternative process teacher. Photo mixed media teacher.
(Essays. Art. A new gathering of celebrated artist Jo Babc...)
Member Primitive Hunting Society.
Married Diane DeVoto, August 20, 1973 (divorced June 1975). Domestic partner Kitty Costello, October since 1991.