Amanda Means

Amanda Means (b. 1950, Marion, NY) is an American artist photographer. She received a BS from Cornell University and a MFA in photography from SUNY Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop). She is a master black and white printer having made prints for clients such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Roni Horn, and the Smithsonian Institute. Means has primarily focused on camera-less photography, using objects (such as leaves, light bulbs, and water glasses) instead of photographic negatives to produce her prints. Her work has been collected by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [ [http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=advanced;dtype=d;_t1102=%22amanda%20means%22 (three items)] ] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) [ [http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/amico641202-116609.html listing for "Lightbulb #3"] ,] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She currently lives and works in Woodstock, NY. She has had a special exhibition of her photographs of leaves at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. ["Another green worldAmanda Means's luminous photographs of leaves make nature look almost extraterrestrial" by Mark Feeney. June 1, 2008 Boston Globe, retrieved from [http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/06/01/another_green_world/ boston.com] on June 12, 2008.]

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* [http://www.gallery339.com Gallery 339]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/11575/amanda-means.html listing on artnet]