11 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary Interpretation of the Bible! with Footnotes – #9

Joyce Tenneson (born in Weston, Massachusetts on May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson earned her master’s degree in photography from George Washington University after starting as a model for Polaroid. She left her job as a photography professor at 39, and moved from Washington to New York. Tenneson shoots primarily with the Polaroid 20×24 camera. As a child, her parents worked on the grounds of a convent, which is where she grew up with her two sisters. She and her sister “were enlisted to be in holiday pageants and processions. It was a mysterious environment — something out of Fellini — filled with symbolism, ritual, beauty, and also a disturbing kind of surreal imagery.” Tenneson moved from Manhattan to Rockport, Maine in 2004…

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