$2,500.00
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Joseph Jachna
Slough Gundy, Wisconsin, 1967
Silver gelatin print
16x20 inches
Courtesy of the Anita Stiegler
Estimated value: $2,000
Starting bid: $1,700
Buy it now: $2,500
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Joseph Jachna (American 1935-2010)
Joseph Jachna’s work explores abstraction through nature. His early practice was an in-depth study of water and, throughout the 60s and 70s, he made a number of meditative, atmospheric photographs of black expanses of water, capturing the motion of the current. Across the Midwest, Southwest, and even Iceland, Jachna’s images of the landscape are composed with a special attention to shapes created from the juxtapositions of light, shadow, and reflection and ask the viewer to consider the ways in which the camera mediates what we see.
Joseph Jachna received a BS in art education and MS in photography from the Institute of Design (1958, 1961). He studied and taught alongside Aaron Siskind before joining the faculty at University of Illinois at Chicago, where he taught for over three decades. Jachna was awarded grants and fellowships from National Endowment for the Arts (1976) and the Guggenheim Foundation (1980). His work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of Art Institute of Chicago; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Center for Creative Photography, Arizona; and others.
