Background
Joan A. Salinger was born on March 20, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Cranbrook Academy of Art
The University of Michigan
Joan A. Salinger was born on March 20, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Joan Salinger studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she received a Master of Fine Arts (1976). She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1973).
In 1980s Joan Salinger was a photography instructor in California at Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, and Pasadena City College. She works with Type C color film, often producing prints that are one of a kind.
Quotations: "Current work also plays tension between manipulated and unmanipulated areas of the image. It is also more specific in reference to the influence of Los Angeles on my feelings and attitude."
Joan Salinger is a member of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), CAA, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies and the American Federation of Teachers.