Rose Mandel
| Rose Mandel | |
|---|---|
 crop of picture by Richard Muffley | |
| Born |
2 August, 1910 Czaniec |
| Died |
12 March, 2002 Berkeley |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Known for | photography |
Rose Mandel (August 2, 1910 – March 12, 2002) was a Polish-born American photographer, who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967.[1]
Early life
Rose Mandel was born in a Jewish family in Czaniec, Poland.[2] She studied child psychology with Jean Piaget in Geneva, at the Rousseau Institute. She lived in Paris in the 1930s. In 1942, during World War II, she and her husband Arthur left Europe for America. She studied photography at the California School of Fine Arts, with Ansel Adams and Minor White as instructors.[3] One of her classmates, who became a close friend, was Richard Diebenkorn.[4]
Career
Mandel was senior photographer for the art department at the University of California. Her 1948 show, "On Walls and Behind Glass", at the San Francisco Museum of Art, focused on street photography. In 1954, she had a solo exhibit at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, titled "The Errand of the Eye," after an Emily Dickinson poem. The photographs in this show were mostly nature subjects in closeup. In 1956, photographs by Rose Mandel accompanied an ArtNews profile of Richard Diebenkorn.[5] "I never tried to imitate painting," Mandel explained late in life. "I wanted to be very photographic, 100 percent photographic."[6] Her work was recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967.[7]
Personal life
Rose Mandel died in Berkeley, California in 2002, age 91.
In 2013, a retrospective titled "The Errand of the Eye: Photographs by Rose Mandel," featuring 80 of her works, was organized by the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California.[8][9][10]
References
- ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fellows directory.
- ↑ Sura Wood, "Edge of the Art World" Bay Area Reporter (July 11, 2013).
- ↑ Raymond McCrea Jones, "The Photography Evolution of Rose Mandel" CNN Photos (August 11, 2013).
- ↑ Steven Winn, "Rose Mandel Had an Eye for City, Nature" SFGate (June 6, 2013).
- ↑ Ann Landi, "Overshadowed by Diebenkorn: Rose Mandel is Back" ArtNews (July 24, 2013).
- ↑ Abigail Foerstner, "Encore Long Overdue for Rose Mandel" Chicago Tribune (October 30, 1992).
- ↑ "Forty University Staff Members receive Guggenheim Fellowships for 1967" University Bulletin 15(April 10, 1967): 147.
- ↑ Susan Ehrens and Julian Cox, The Errand of the Eye: Photographs by Rose Mandel (DelMonico Books/Prestel 2013). ISBN 9783791353050
- ↑ Addy Bhasin, "Exhibit Shows Haunting Shots of Photographer's Life" Daily Cal (September 4, 2013).
- ↑ Murray Paskin, "Rose Mandel's Experiments Show Roots of Modernist Pioneer" San Francisco Examiner (October 3, 2013).
External links
- Works by Rose Mandel in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art