"I think that Pirkle Jones is an artist in the best sense of the word," (Ansel) Adams once said. "His statement is sound and resonant of the external world as well as of the internal responses and evaluations of his personality."
Noted San Francisco photographer Pirkle Jones passed on last Sunday of heart failure. After WWII, he took courses at the California School of Fine Arts where he met other students and instructors such as Ansel Adams, Minor White, Dorothea Lange anfdEdward Weston.
Pirkle worked as Adam's assistant from '47 to '53 and later on worked on his series "Death of a Valley" and on the Black Panthers.
“I’ve always thought of my career as a bridge between the classic photography of Ansel Adams and the documentary work of Dorothea Lange,” he told Art & Antiques last year.
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