{"product_id":"john-chiara-california-9781597114233","title":"John Chiara: California","description":"John Chiara creates his own cameras and chemical processes, in order to make unique photographs that use the direct exposure of light onto reversal film and paper. Each resulting photograph is a singular, luminous object. This highly anticipated first book includes the surreal and thrilling landscape and architectural images for which the artist has become known. \u003ci\u003eJohn Chiara: California\u003c\/i\u003e features images taken in the artist's hometown of San Francisco and other locations along the Pacific Coast. An essay by Virginia Heckert situates Chiara's work in the landscape tradition of the American West and discusses this process-driven work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChiara, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJohn Chiara\u003c\/b\u003e received a BFA in photography from the University of Utah in 1995 and an MFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004. Chiara was Artist in Residence at Budapest Art Factory (2017); Crown Point Press, San Francisco (2006, 2016); Porch Society, Clarksdale, Mississippi (2013-14); Gallery Four, Baltimore (2010); and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2010). In 2011 and 2013, the Pilara Foundation in San Francisco commissioned work that was included in two group exhibitions at Pier 24 Photography: \u003ci\u003eHERE\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Sense of Place\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeckert, Virginia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eVirginia Heckert\u003c\/b\u003e is photography curator and head of the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; she is the curator of \u003ci\u003eLight, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and author of the accompanying catalogue (2015). Her other books include \u003ci\u003eEd Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eIrving Penn: Small Trades\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), coauthored with Anne Lacoste.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359035822354,"sku":"9781597114233","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_faf179af-1685-4706-811e-2e620628798c.jpg?v=1728349456","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/john-chiara-california-9781597114233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}