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| Mary Saxton received her first camera in 1958 at the age of eight.
It was a waist-level bellows-style camera called a 'Jiffy Brownie', a hand-me-down
from her mother. Most of Mary's early work was with color slide film. In
1975, while living and teaching in New York City, she became interested
in black and white, setting up a darkroom in her kitchen. After a 1987
trip to Hawaii with twelve of her photography students from Houston, TX.,
Mary's interest changed again toward color.
Mary uses a Canon F1, a Canon EOS 630 and an 'ancient' Agfa 5x7 wooden field camera. She considers herself to be a 'straight' photographer, not altering the environments she photographs or using filters, nor does she crop her prints in the darkroom. Today, her darkroom has three enlargers, and she works both in color and black & white. Mary, first began photographing New Mexico in 1989, she moved to New Mexico in 1992. A native of Wisconsin, she is intrigued by the graphic patterns in the sand and the stark contrast between the white sand and New Mexico's blue sky . Saxton has exhibited her photographs in shows in New Mexico, Texas, New York and Virginia, and has won several awards. Her photographs are in private and corporate collections in the United States, as well as in Europe. Mary is also featured in a book called, Our Grandmothers: Loving Portraits by 74 Granddaughters, that was published in the Spring of 1998 by Stewart Tabori & Chang. The book is edited by Linda Sunshine and is available on-line at amazon.com. |
