Background
Suzanne Opton was born on March 14, 1945, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Suzanne Opton
Smith College
(In the two series collected in this volume, Soldier and M...)
In the two series collected in this volume, Soldier and Many Wars, photographer Suzanne Opton photographs a range of American soldiers close up, with their heads resting on tabletops, and American veterans draped in cloth blankets.
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Suzanne Opton was born on March 14, 1945, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Suzanne Opton earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1967).
A photography instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (since 1979), Suzanne Opton previously taught at Pratt Institute in New York City (1977-1978). In 1977 she taught a workshop on "photo diaries" at Orange County Mental Health Center in Bradford, Vermont, and in 1976-1977 taught a similar workshop privately in New York City. Her photographs have appeared in such magazines as Life, Time, Esquire, and Ms.
Her work falls into three categories: small-format black-and-white studies of unmarried brothers and sisters in Vermont who live together; small-format color self-portraits that are sequences and montages of dreams, relationships and states of mind; and medium-format black-and-white constructions on a wall using paper, ribbon, leaves, flowers, vegetables and "sometimes my baby Jules."
Suzanne Opton is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her soldier portraits, icons of the aftermath of the current wars, have been presented as billboards in eight American cities, and have sparked a passionate debate about issues of art and soldiering.
Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum, Dancing Bear collection, the International Center of Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Library of Congress, Musee de l’Eysee, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Nelson-Atkins Museum, and Portland Art Museum. She has received grants from the NEA, NYFA, and Vermont Council on the Arts. Suzanne lives in New York and teaches at the International Center of Photography.
(In the two series collected in this volume, Soldier and M...)
2011
