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Ruth Thorne-Thomsen was born on 1943 in United States, is an American photographer. Discover Ruth Thorne-Thomsen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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1943

Ruth Thorne-Thomsen (born 1943 New York City) is an American photographer who resides in Philadelphia.

Important collections of her work are held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

1964

Initially intending to become a dancer, she performed with the Sybil Shearer Dance Company in Northbrook, Illinois from 1964–1965.

1970

Rooted on the one hand in 19th-century travel views by figures such as Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith, which captivated Thorne-Thomsen, and on the other hand in amateur photography traditions from the Pictorialist movement onward, which she encountered firsthand in the work of her grandmother and mother, this resolutely un-authoritative group of pictures is a notable body of photography to emerge from the experimental decade of the 1970s.

Thorne-Thomsen was raised in Berkeley, California until age twelve, when her family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois.

As a child she spent significant time visiting her grandmother at family ranches in Santa Barbara, where she developed her love for animals, gardening, and wide open spaces.

1971

She studied photography at Columbia College Chicago (1971–1973) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1974–1976) following earlier programs in dance and painting at Columbia College, Missouri (1961–1963) and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1966–1970).

A 1971 trip to the Brooks Range in Alaska sparked her interest in photography.

1975

Between 1975 and 1993 Thorne-Thomsen produced an unorthodox body of photographs with a pinhole camera.

She made portraits of friends and family members, staged toys and other props to create seemingly vast landscapes, and included her own cut-out photographs in some compositions, creating whimsical riffs on art history.

Despite the modest appearance of these prints—most are smaller than 4x5 inches and are presented informally, with uneven edges and other markers of their simple production—they form a meditation on photography that has proven influential to other artists.

1976

Early in her studies she encountered pinhole photography and began exploring its potential through multiple overlapping series, notably Expeditions (1976–1982), Prima Materia (1984–1987), Views from the Shoreline (1986–1987) and Songs of the Sea (1991–1993).

She made many of these pictures in Chicago and Santa Barbara, as well as Door County, Wisconsin, where she and Metzker would visit her parents on their way to Castle Valley, Utah.

1989

Thorne-Thomsen also explored other aspects of photography, notably in her series Messengers (1989–1991), large studies of sculptures and art illustrations that incorporate movement of the camera.

Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen accompanied her exhibition of the same title, which was published by The Museum of Contemporary Photography in association with Aperture, with an essay by Denise Miller-Clark and an original poem by Poet Laureate Mark Strand.

Thorne-Thomsen is a descendant of the American statesman Elbridge Gerry Spaulding, so-called “Father of the Greenback,” as well as the Norwegian actress and minister, Fredrikke Nielsen.

She lives in a home that she and her husband, Ray K. Metzker, built together in Philadelphia, where she maintains an extensive garden.

1999

They owned a home in Castle Valley from 1999 until 2016, and both photographed extensively in the area.

2014

She was married to the photographer Ray K. Metzker until his death in 2014.