Jock Sturges
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Original works
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Original prints from Moscow exhibition
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Original prints from "The Leica Project"
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"The Leica Project" book with print
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"The Rollei Project" book with print
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Book incl. Signed photo
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Book incl. Photo
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Signed book
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Books
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Poster
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Twenty-Five Years (portfolio)
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Standing on Water (portfolio)
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Fanny (portfolio)
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Platinum One (portfolio)
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Vanessa (portfolio)
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Biography
Jock Sturges (American, b.1947) is best known for his intimate, arresting photographs, often of nude adolescent girls erotically posed in nature. Born in New York City, Sturges studied at Marlboro College in Vermont, and later received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. In his luminous, detailed photographs, Sturges captures images of young women and their families at nude beaches in France and California. His photographs portray his subjects with a self-awareness of their developing adult identity and sexuality. Sturges makes it a point, however, to stress the trusting, personal relationship between himself, his subject, and his subject’s family as essential to his work.
He has photographed some subjects over a series of decades, tracing their growth into adults, as well as created images of families spanning several generations. Sturges has attracted a significant amount of controversy over his works, but he continually receives public support against criticisms. Sturges has published several books of his photographs, and his work is in the collections of the Phildelphia Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Denver Museum of Art, the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Museum Ludwig in Berlin, and the Musée de la Louvière in Brussels. He currently resides in Seattle, WA.