Background
Nancy Louise Rexroth was born on June 27, 1946, in Washington, United States.
The American University
Ohio University
Marietta College
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Rexroth's most notable work, Iowa, is a series of dream-like and poetic images. Each seemingly candid and liquid composition includes a soft focus and vignette, characteristic qualities of Diana camera images. The Iowa series subconsciously expresses Rexroth's childhood memories of visiting family in Iowa. Growing up in the suburbs of Arlington, Virginia, she was captivated by the exotic summer landscapes of Iowa. Although the influence of her memories is present, Rexroth refers to Iowa as a hallucinatory state of mind rather than a concrete geographic location of personal sentiment. She describes Iowa as "conceived of as a kind of psychic journey from one emotional mood to the next - a maturation process. It all happens in a place that is very exotic." In the introduction to the book, Mark L Power describes this work as "Sunny Iowa was transformed by memory into a dark Iowa with 'a real feeling of melancholy.' It became Iowa of 'atmospheres' and the Diana became a key - with it, Rexroth unlocks Iowa from wherever she happens to be." Iowa republished by the University of Texas Press in 2017 with the original introduction written by Mark L Power as well as new introductions written by Alec Soth and Anne Wilkes Tucker.
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Nancy Louise Rexroth was born on June 27, 1946, in Washington, United States.
Nancy Rexroth attended Marietta (Ohio) College in 1964-1965, then received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in English from American University, Washington, D.C. in 1969. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Ohio University, Athens, in 1971.
In the 1980s, Nancy Rexroth was teaching at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio; she previously taught at Antioch College (1977-1979) and Ohio University (1975-1976). The photographer worked for six years with a Diana camera, creating "memory images."
(Rexroth's most notable work, Iowa, is a series of dream-l...)
1976A member of SPE and the American Association of University Women.