Pinky Bass

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Pinky M. M. Bass (born 1936) is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.

Bass lives and works in Fairhope, Alabama and has a very close relationship to Birmingham through here art. Bass' work has shown at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Montgomery Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her work has also been published in Aperture, Pinhole Journal and is in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation. Bass has taught numberous workshops in Pinhole camera across the country. she has worked with Space One Eleven numerous times. Bass is considered a master of Pinhole photography. Artsojourner 20:34, 27 December 2006 (PST)

Pinky Bass was an intrinsic part of Agnes in Birmingham until the gallery closed in 2000.

Work

  • "3 RING CIRCUS'" THE BIG TOP GALLERY curated by Deborah Luster featured works by Pinky Bass, Ruth Marten, Danna Moore, Laura Noland-Hunter, Donna Service, The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Bass' work was part of "The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography" curated by Diana H. Bloomfield along with work by Rebecca Sexton Larson, Scott McMahon, Christopher Sims, Sarah Van Keuren and Sam Wang.
  • "The Enchanted Mishap," This issue, using the theme of the "mishap," those chance accidents that produces surprising imagery, includes work by Pertti Saloheimo, Clint O'Connor and Pinky Bass, among many others. PINHOLE JOURNAL: Pinhole Journal Vol 19 #1.

Awards

  • North Carolina Visual Arts Project Grant 1992
  • North Carolina Visual Artistic Fellowship Grant 1993

Quotes

  • On pinhole photography . . . "I love the word integrity. It's not about being moral-- it's about being whole. So if the camera or the object that you are using to make the photograph has something to do with the image that comes out of it, then there's a lot of integrity there." - Pinky Bass Template:Fact
  • "I began stitching internal organs onto photographic images when my sister was dying of cancer. My son had died the year before and both my parents the year following. The accidental death of my friend and artist collaborator, Kitty Couch, drew me even deeper into myself and this intimate process of grieving /creating." - Pinky Bass

Books

Film

  • "Coat of Many Colors," directed by Michelle Forman and Carolyn Hales, 2001 documentary for television featuring Pinky Bass as herself.
  • "Momento Mori: Positive/Negative" contains black and white images, Alabama Public Television

External links

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