D. R. Cowles
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Artist Info:
D. R. Cowles was born in Boston in 1950 and began teaching himself large-format photography as a high school student. Later his interest turned to film. He studied first at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then at New York University's Graduate Institute for Film and Television. In 1976 Cowles moved to Montreal and studied European and Jewish history at Concordia University. Returning to still photography in the 1980s, he again began working in large format and experimenting with older printing processes. In 1992 he began researching a large work that would fuse the historical with the photographic, and in 1993 made the first of numerous trips to North Africa to document remaining Jewish sites (synagogues, cemeteries, and shrines) in Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia. Cowles' work is represented in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Tel Aviv Museum, and the Jewish Museum of Casablanca.
Artist Info | Slideshow | Contact Sheet
Artist Info:
D. R. Cowles was born in Boston in 1950 and began teaching himself large-format photography as a high school student. Later his interest turned to film. He studied first at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then at New York University's Graduate Institute for Film and Television. In 1976 Cowles moved to Montreal and studied European and Jewish history at Concordia University. Returning to still photography in the 1980s, he again began working in large format and experimenting with older printing processes. In 1992 he began researching a large work that would fuse the historical with the photographic, and in 1993 made the first of numerous trips to North Africa to document remaining Jewish sites (synagogues, cemeteries, and shrines) in Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia. Cowles' work is represented in numerous collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Tel Aviv Museum, and the Jewish Museum of Casablanca.
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Cemetery Shrine, Rabbi Amram ben Ouassane, D. R. Cowles |