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'''Pinky M. M. Bass''' (born 1936) is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
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'''Marion Winchester McCall "Pinky" Bass''', also known as '''Pinky /MM Bass''' or '''Pinky M. M. Bass'''' (born [[January 20]], [[1936]] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography. She is a resident of Fairhope in Baldwin County. She has been a featured artist at [[Space One Eleven]] and [[Agnes]] galleries in [[Birmingham]], and has been shown at the [[Birmingham Museum of Art]] as well as at art museums in Houston, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Her work has been published in ''Aperture'' and ''Pinhole Journal''.


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 known for her inventive self-built pinhole cameras, The first of these, made in [[1989]], was a giant pinhole built out of a pop-up travel camper, "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom".
Bass is considered a master of Pinhole photography. [[User:Artsojourner|Artsojourner]] 20:34, 27 December 2006 (PST)


Pinky Bass was an intrinsic part of [[Agnes]] in Birmingham until the gallery closed in 2000.
She has won grants for her work from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1991, and from the State of North Carolina in 1992 and 1993. She appears in the 2001 television documentary ''Coat of Many Colors'', and her work was used in the [[Alabama Public Television]] special, ''Memento Mori: Positive/Negative''.


==Work==
Bass' installation "Body Notes", which employs petit componia (music box mechanisms) to produce sounds based on a pattern of punched holes tracing the contours of photographic images, was featured at the 2008 [[Magic City Art Connection]] festival at [[Linn Park]].
* "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. [http://www.photoeye.com/EmailNewsletter/NewsletterArchive/HTMLNewsletter20030704.cfm PINHOLE JOURNAL: Pinhole Journal Vol 19 #1].


==Awards==
==Exhibitions==
* North Carolina Visual Arts Project Grant 1992
* “[http://www.nmwa.org/pubs/cat_books_item.asp?prdid=161 Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium].”
* North Carolina Visual Artistic Fellowship Grant 1993
** National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (June - September 2000)
==Quotes==
** [[Birmingham Museum of Art]] (January - April 2001)
* 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 {{fact}}
** Huntsville Museum of Art (May - August 2001)
** Montgomery Museum of Art (September - October 2001)
** Wiregrass Museum, Dothan (January - April 2002)
** Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden (May - August 2002)
** Mobile Museum of Art (August - October 2002)
* "[http://jankapoor.net/PureLight.html Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography]"
** Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (January - April 2003)
* "The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography" Upstairs Gallery. Tryon, North Carolina (April - May 2005)
* "Body Works". [[University of Montevallo]]. Bloch Hall Gallery (2006)
* "Id: An Exhibition of Self Portraiture." The Light Factory. Charlotte, North Carolina (August - October 2006)
* "Cuerpos Santos" S P A C E Inaugural Book Arts exhibition, SDCA (Seaport District Cultural Association) New York City July-Sept 2007.
* "Body Notes", [[Magic City Art Connection]]. Birmingham. (April 25-27, 2008)


* "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
==References==
 
* "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_Bass Pinky Bass]" (August 27, 2023) ''Wikipedia'' - accessed September 27, 2023
==Books==
* "The Enchanted Mishap".  Pinhole Journal. Vol. 19, No. 1
* "Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico." [[Birmingham, Alabama]]: Space One Eleven, 1996.  
* Space One Eleven (1996) ''Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico''. Space One Eleven.
* "Fairhope: Images of America" by [[Cathy Donelson]], [[Fannie Flagg]] (Foreword), Bass pg. 29 "The Fairhope Village Improvement."
* Donelson, Cathy (n. d.) ''Fairhope: Images of America''. Arcadia Press.
 
* Forman, Michele and Carolyn Hales, directors (2001) ''[http://www.alabamaarts.org/bass.html Coat of Many Colors]''.
==Film==
* Alabama Public Television (n. d. ) "[http://www.aptv.org/vr/pinky.asp Momento Mori: Positive/Negative]"
* "Coat of Many Colors," directed by Michelle Forman and Carolyn Hales, 2001 documentary for television featuring Pinky Bass as herself.  
* James, Christopher (2002) ''The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes.'' Florence, Kentucky: Thomson Delmar Learning. ISBN 0766820777
* "Momento Mori: Positive/Negative" contains black and white images, [[Alabama Public Television]]  
* Space One Eleven. (1996) ''Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico.'' Space One Eleven.
* Huebner, Michael (April 25, 2008) "[http://blog.al.com/mhuebner/2008/04/magic_city_art_connection.html Art that makes music]" {{BN}}


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.alabamaarts.org/bass.html "Coat of Many Colors"]
* [https://www.pinkymmbass.com/ Pinky /MM Bass] website
* [http://www.aptv.org/vr/pinky.asp Alabama Public Television]
* [http://www.wbhm.org/Tapestry/pinkybass1.m3u Pinky Bass interview] on "[[Tapestry]]"
* [http://pm.appstate.edu/~goodmanj/pinhome/pinhome.htm Pinhole Camera Homepage] example of Bass Pinhole camera work
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_Bass Pinky Bass on Wikipedia]


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Latest revision as of 14:10, 27 September 2023

Pinky Bass Bodyworks cover.jpg

Marion Winchester McCall "Pinky" Bass, also known as Pinky /MM Bass or Pinky M. M. Bass' (born January 20, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography. She is a resident of Fairhope in Baldwin County. She has been a featured artist at Space One Eleven and Agnes galleries in Birmingham, and has been shown at the Birmingham Museum of Art as well as at art museums in Houston, Montgomery and Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Aperture and Pinhole Journal.

Bass is known for her inventive self-built pinhole cameras, The first of these, made in 1989, was a giant pinhole built out of a pop-up travel camper, "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom".

She has won grants for her work from the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1991, and from the State of North Carolina in 1992 and 1993. She appears in the 2001 television documentary Coat of Many Colors, and her work was used in the Alabama Public Television special, Memento Mori: Positive/Negative.

Bass' installation "Body Notes", which employs petit componia (music box mechanisms) to produce sounds based on a pattern of punched holes tracing the contours of photographic images, was featured at the 2008 Magic City Art Connection festival at Linn Park.

Exhibitions

  • “Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium.”
    • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (June - September 2000)
    • Birmingham Museum of Art (January - April 2001)
    • Huntsville Museum of Art (May - August 2001)
    • Montgomery Museum of Art (September - October 2001)
    • Wiregrass Museum, Dothan (January - April 2002)
    • Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden (May - August 2002)
    • Mobile Museum of Art (August - October 2002)
  • "Pure Light: Southern Pinhole Photography"
    • Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (January - April 2003)
  • "The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography" Upstairs Gallery. Tryon, North Carolina (April - May 2005)
  • "Body Works". University of Montevallo. Bloch Hall Gallery (2006)
  • "Id: An Exhibition of Self Portraiture." The Light Factory. Charlotte, North Carolina (August - October 2006)
  • "Cuerpos Santos" S P A C E Inaugural Book Arts exhibition, SDCA (Seaport District Cultural Association) New York City July-Sept 2007.
  • "Body Notes", Magic City Art Connection. Birmingham. (April 25-27, 2008)

References

  • "Pinky Bass" (August 27, 2023) Wikipedia - accessed September 27, 2023
  • "The Enchanted Mishap". Pinhole Journal. Vol. 19, No. 1
  • Space One Eleven (1996) Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico. Space One Eleven.
  • Donelson, Cathy (n. d.) Fairhope: Images of America. Arcadia Press.
  • Forman, Michele and Carolyn Hales, directors (2001) Coat of Many Colors.
  • Alabama Public Television (n. d. ) "Momento Mori: Positive/Negative"
  • James, Christopher (2002) The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes. Florence, Kentucky: Thomson Delmar Learning. ISBN 0766820777
  • Space One Eleven. (1996) Tangle of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico. Space One Eleven.
  • Huebner, Michael (April 25, 2008) "Art that makes music" The Birmingham News

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