Kim Kirkpatrick

Kim Kirkpatrick (born 1952) is a landscape photographer who lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area. He created a large body of work during the 1980s and 1990s that extensively used the photo effect, bokeh.

Kirkpatrick earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Maryland. In 1993, the Aaron Siskind Foundation awarded Kirkpatrick an Individual Photographers Fellowship Grant.[1] Kirkpatrick taught photography as an adjunct member of the faculty at the Corcoran College of Art and Design[2] and at the Smithsonian Residents Associate Program. He has exhibited his photography in galleries and museums. The musical group Interface used a Kirkpatrick photograph on the cover of their CD "./swank."[3]

Kirkpatrick's landscape photos focus on construction and industrial zones around Washington D.C. He uses an 8×10 view camera for its high-resolution image, adding, "I want the detail that people miss." Sally Troyer, a D.C. gallery owner, said of Kirkpatrick's work, "I have never seen work so sensitive to light and color."[4] Mike Johnston noted, in reference to bokeh, that Kirkpatrick "made deft use of it as design, as figuration, and as a way to use color abstractly".[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ List of recipients Archived 2013-09-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ CCA+D Photography Department Archived 2009-02-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Cycling '74, " Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine"
  4. ↑ Interview with Wheaton Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, MD Gazette, June 13, 2001.
  5. ↑ Mike Johnston, "Bokeh in pictures Archived 2015-01-03 at the Wayback Machine"
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