October Issue 2001
DownTownes in Greenville, SC, Offers Photographic Works by Sigrid Riess-Mundry
DownTownes in Greenville, SC, will be hosting
a collection of image transfers, infrared and Ilfachrome prints
by Sigrid Riess-Mundry, entitled Journey. The exhibit will be
on view Oct. 25 through Dec. 6, 2001.
Riess-Mundry's motivation for photographing is to show the essence
of people, to create a record of truth. Her images are about honesty
and relationships. Riess-Mundry says, "I see people differently
than they perceive themselves. The relationship of my subjects
to themselves and to their environment was one of my main concerns.
In my own children I wanted to capture their raw emotional vulnerability."
Another interest of Riess-Mundry's is the human body which she looks at as a landscape to be explored. She searches for the beauty and poetry that lies within the person and its body when she photographs people in the nude.
To execute her vision Reiss-Mundry used different techniques, for example, the Polaroid transfer which gives a more painterly effect, the Ilfachrome print which is a high contrast positive to positive print, or infrared film which attains a more surreal feeling.
Sigrid Riess-Mundry studied fine art photography at Foothill and DeAnza College in California with Marion Patterson, who was a student and assistant of Ansel Adams. Riess-Mundry continued her studies in commercial photography at City College in San Francisco. She won the Palo Alto Photography contest in 1994 and the Olympiad of the Arts in 1995. Her work has been exhibited in Germany and the US.
Riess-Mundry is a German national who has lived in the US since 1988 with an interruption of two years when the family transferred back to Germany. She is married and has two children.
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