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Linn Sage

 
Linn Sage

American 20th-21st century American photographer
(Baltimore, MD , Nov. 10, 1937 – )

from artist's website: Based in New York, N.Y. and Maine, Linn Sage is a documentary and street photographer with a background in Fine Arts. She explores the issues, icons, and significant events of our times since the 1960's, with a sense of history and humor. She does portraits on location, and has traveled extensively. Her work has been widely exhibited and published. It is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, and the International Center of Photography, NY. Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, 1960. From Prabook online: A freelance photographer since 1965, Linn Sage was assistant to the cover editor at Newsweek in 1964-1965 and art and photo editor of Contact magazine (Sausalito, California) in 1961-1962. Using black-and-white with, primarily, a Leica camera, Linn Sage creates surreal and documentary images.

1 objects

John Gilley’s House, Baker’s Island

n.d.
gelatin silver prints on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.288