3Martha Casanave
Photographer’s Forum, September 1998
Martha Casanave (b. 1946) is well-known and respected for her highly expressive black and white portraits and her compelling images of the human form. Her work has been featured in many photographic publications and included in exhibitions around the world. Casanave’s work is in major collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Stanford Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (as part of the Image Continuum Journal), the Yuen Lui Gallery Collection, and the Friends of Imogen Cunningham.
From 1979 to 1989, Polaroid Corporation sponsored her work by awarding her several Print Collection Grants. The publication of her book Past Lives: Photographs by Martha Casanave (1991) was supported ...
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