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Janna Ireland (born 1985) is an African-American photographer based in Los Angeles. Biography Janna Ireland was born in 1985 in Philadelphia. She studied photography at NYU, rec...

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Janna Ireland (born 1985) is an African-American photographer based in Los Angeles.

Biography

Janna Ireland was born in 1985 in Philadelphia. She studied photography at NYU, received her MFA at UCLA, and now lives and works in Los Angeles.[1] Ireland photographs a wide range of subject matter from portraits and still lifes to the urban landscape, and her photographs have been exhibited internationally. Since 2016, she has photographed the buildings designed by African-American architect, Paul R. Williams, who was the first black architect admitted to the American Institute of Architecture (AIA).[2] In 2020, she published a book featuring 200 of these photographs, which were collected in a volume titled, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View.[3] Ireland continued her work on Paul R. Williams as a Peter E. Pool Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art.[4] In 2022, an exhibition of her photographs of Williams' Nevada buildings opened at the Nevada Museum of Art.[5] She is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College.

Education

Janna Ireland is a graduate of the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts in 2003, where she earned her major in creative writing. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch School of Arts in 2007. She earned her MFA in art in 2013 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Artworks

Ireland has an extensive career in editorial photography, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine,[6] The Atlantic,[7] Architectural Digest,[8] Introspective Magazine,[9] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[9]The New Yorker,[10] Harper's Magazine,[11] and L.A. Magazine.[12]

She is best known for her series of photographs of buildings designed by African-American architect, Paul R. Williams. Beginning in 2016,[1] she traveled around southern California photographing the buildings that he designed at the height of his career, from the 1920s-1940s.[13] She has photographed several dozen structures designed by Williams.[14]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Collections

Janna Ireland's photographs are held in the permanent collections of major metropolitan museums including, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[20] the California African American Museum,[21] the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,[22] and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.[23]

Honors and awards

Authored books

  • Janna Ireland, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View. Santa Monica: Angel City Press, 2020

See also

References

  1. 12Artsy, Avishay. "Turning the lens to the architecture of Paul R. Williams." UCLA Newsroom. February 10, 2021. Accessed 2021-05-08. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/janna-ireland-paul-r-williams-book
  2. ↑Morgan, Susan (Fall 2018). "Janna Ireland". Aperture. 232 (232): 126–131. JSTOR 26530870.
  3. ↑Zeiger, Mimi (2018-10-01). "Photographer Janna Ireland is ensuring that modernist architect Paul R. Williams isn't forgotten". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  4. ↑"Research Fellows". Nevada Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  5. ↑McGee, Celia (14 July 2022). "A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  6. ↑Kiesling, Lydia (2021-01-26). "This Parenting Book Actually Made Me a Better Parent". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  7. ↑Williams, Caroline Randall (September 13, 2020). "Other Ways to Say Black Face". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  8. ↑Otieno, Nereya (11 February 2021). "Paul R. Williams: Behind the Mastery of the Master Architect". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  9. 12Keeps, David (February 14, 2021). "Celebrating the Life an Legacy of Pioneering L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams". Introspective magazine.
  10. ↑Shun-lien Bynum, Sarah. "Bedtime Story." The New Yorker. The New Yorker, April 20, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/bedtime-story.
  11. ↑Queen, Khadijah (2020-07-15). "[Miscellany] False Dawn, By Khadijah Queen". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  12. ↑Meares, Hadley. "Taking a Closer Look at the Lasting Genius of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams." LA Magazine. September 15, 2020. https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/paul-revere-williams-janna-ireland-book/ .
  13. ↑Otieno, Nereya (11 February 2021). "Paul R. Williams: Behind the Mastery of the Master Architect". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  14. ↑Ireland, Janna. Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View. Angel City Press, 2020.
  15. ↑"The Spotless Mirror". Chicago Reader. 23 September 2009. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  16. ↑LensCulture, Janna Ireland |. "Janna Ireland". LensCulture. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  17. 12345"Janna Ireland | Biography". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  18. ↑"Janna Ireland: Familiar Presence at Agility Space". curate.la. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  19. ↑"Paul Revere Williams". Nevada Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  20. ↑"LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  21. ↑"CAAM | Sanctuary: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection". caamuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  22. ↑"SBMA Collections". Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  23. ↑"Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2021-05-11.