PRESENTING ALPINE STAR BY RON JUDE

STATEMENT The source of the photographs in Alpine Star is the weekly newspaper from my hometown in Central Idaho. The poetic element of these images—the abstract subtext of slippery, shifting narrative found in every photograph—is inflated here through the process of subtle manipulation and nuanced sequencing. While offering a world of loss and isolation, the pictures in Alpine Star also suggest the cross-pollination of personal history and collective memory.

Q&A Click HERE to read the conversation between Julie Fishkin and Ron Jude. BIOGRAPHY Ron Jude was born in Los Angeles and spent his early years as a ski racer in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been exhibited at the Photographer's Gallery in London, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and Roth/Horowitz Gallery in New York. Jude’s photographs have been published in numerous magazines including The New Yorker, Blind Spot, Nest and DoubleTake. He is the co-founder of A-Jump Books and the author of Alpine Star and Postcards. Other Nature, a collection of photographs from 2001-2007 will be published by The Ice Plant (Los Angeles) in October of this year. He currently lives and works in upstate New York.

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