"Searching for Jehanne: The Joan of Arc Project" Book
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Written and photographed by Susan Aurinko.
SUMMARY: A photographic journey to attribute a sense of place and face to Joan of Arc.
In 2013, Chicago based artist Susan Aurinko went on a photographic expedition to France. While in the Loire Valley, she visited a 12th century chateau that was once the temporary home of Joan of Arc. Captivated by the legend of the saint, Aurinko repeatedly returned to photograph the places where Joan of Arc once lived, prayed, and fought throughout her brief life. Aurinko employs layered images to explore the iconographic nature of this revered saint through popular culture, literature, feminism, and theology.
About the author:
Susan Aurinko, photographer and curator, has shown her work in solo exhibitions in France, Italy, India, as well as in the US. Her exhibition about India, entitled STILL POINT INDIA, which opened in February 2013 at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, toured India’s largest cities, and is now available as a book. In 2007, the proposed cover image for the book STILL POINT INDIA won both a Jury and a Public Choice award from Px3 in Paris. Aurinko’s work appears on several book covers, including The Stranger Among Us, Ariel, Scar Tissue, and Slut Lullabies, and four of her photographs are included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection. In addition, many of her images hang in private collections in France, Italy, India, Monaco, the UK, and across the US.
Aurinko is on the Advisory Committee of the International Photography Awards (Lucie Awards) and has been an IPA and Px3 Juror for several years.
Aurinko's "Searching for Jehanne: The Joan of Arc Project" will be presented in a solo exhibition at LUMA (Loyola University Museum of Art) in Chicago from June - October 2017.
SUMMARY: A photographic journey to attribute a sense of place and face to Joan of Arc.
In 2013, Chicago based artist Susan Aurinko went on a photographic expedition to France. While in the Loire Valley, she visited a 12th century chateau that was once the temporary home of Joan of Arc. Captivated by the legend of the saint, Aurinko repeatedly returned to photograph the places where Joan of Arc once lived, prayed, and fought throughout her brief life. Aurinko employs layered images to explore the iconographic nature of this revered saint through popular culture, literature, feminism, and theology.
About the author:
Susan Aurinko, photographer and curator, has shown her work in solo exhibitions in France, Italy, India, as well as in the US. Her exhibition about India, entitled STILL POINT INDIA, which opened in February 2013 at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, toured India’s largest cities, and is now available as a book. In 2007, the proposed cover image for the book STILL POINT INDIA won both a Jury and a Public Choice award from Px3 in Paris. Aurinko’s work appears on several book covers, including The Stranger Among Us, Ariel, Scar Tissue, and Slut Lullabies, and four of her photographs are included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection. In addition, many of her images hang in private collections in France, Italy, India, Monaco, the UK, and across the US.
Aurinko is on the Advisory Committee of the International Photography Awards (Lucie Awards) and has been an IPA and Px3 Juror for several years.
Aurinko's "Searching for Jehanne: The Joan of Arc Project" will be presented in a solo exhibition at LUMA (Loyola University Museum of Art) in Chicago from June - October 2017.