Background
Nata Piaskowski was born in 1912 in Lodz, Poland. Piaskowski parents were killed by Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Other Work
Doorway, Mission Street, 1949
Yuba River I, 1982
Nata Piaskowski
Nata Piaskowski was American photographer. Known for her fine composition, she took portraits and landscapes as well as series on the San Francisco psychedelic scene and the changing effects of the tide.
Career
Piaskowski emigrated to the United States in 1942. She obtained United States citizenship in 1948. Piaskowski was photo librarian and historian of the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco from 1954 to 1975, and took up the work again in 1979 on a part-time basis. She worked as a public school teacher in her native Poland in 1935. In 1975, she retired from Bechtel. The same year, she put on a solo exhibition at the Focus Gallery in San Francisco titled "Light and Form".
The artist works in various formats. Shooting black-and-white prints since 1948, she has used color extensively since 1968, looking at “fragments of nature rather than vistas, and portraits. My photography is straightforward, non-manipulative, single exposures. I use color as light, as form, and for the expression of an emotion."
Achievements
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PUBLICATIONS Periodicals: Light7, 14:1, 1968, Perceptions, 2:4, 1954 (Aperture: Millerton, N.Y.).
Works
Other Work
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Doorway, Mission Street, 1949
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Yuba River I, 1982
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
The artist and curator Robert Emory Johnson was impressed by her "magnificent" compositions: "She was very intelligent and very sensitive in her choice of music and poetry and was always encouraging other artists. She was a deep and serious artist throughout her life.
Interests
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She considers Minor White her major influence.
Connections
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- Minor White
Nata Piaskowski studied with Minor White from 1948 to 1950.
Career
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1935
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1954 - 1975
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1975
Awards
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honorary scholarship
She received an honorary scholarship from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1949.She received an honorary scholarship from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1949.