Jo-ann callis woman twirling on bed

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In the s she made her own small beds from clay, fired and flocked them, then photographed them in tiny rooms and finally matted them in fabrics to match the.

In , Jo Ann Callis took a photograph of a woman's head thrown back, her neck taut and tied with a bow looped together from the thin baby blue straps of her.

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Jo Ann Callis: Woman Twirling is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 31 to August 9,

Jo Ann Callis emerged on the Los Angeles photography scene in the mid s, where she gained a reputation as an artist who worked.

Since she emerged in the late 1970s as one of the first important practitioners of the "fabricated photographs" movement, Jo Ann Callis (American, born 1940) has made adventurous contributions in the areas of color photography, sculpture, painting, and digital imagery.

For her, photography is another studio tool to be used, along with the sets she creates and the models she directs, to render the sensual tones and textures of fabric and food, or to animate clay figures of her own making.

The persistent inventiveness of Callis's work has made her a force in Southern California art and in recent photographic practice.

Callis began her art studies in Ohio in the 1950s. After marriage and child rearing, she returned to photography in the 1970s to finish her undergraduate degree, and continued on to a graduate degree in the arts at UCLA.

Her avant-garde style of fabricating photographs was soon publicly recognized, and her work was exhibited and published internationally. At the same