Dave Jordano

Dave Jordano (born 9 May 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American documentary, commercial and fine art photographer who lives and works in Chicago, IL.[1][2]

Life and work

Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies and received a BFA in photography in 1974. Shortly after Jordano moved to Chicago, and in 1977 he started a commercial photography business in Chicago. As a commercial photographer Jordano worked with Crate & Barrel, Starbucks, Nestle, Sears, McDonald's, General Mills, Kraft, Kitchen Aid, Oscar Mayer, and Kellogg's.[3]

Jordano has been producing fine art photography since 2001, when he began work on Chicago Bridge Project,[4] photographs of bridges and other industrial structures in and around Chicago.

From 2002-2003 Jordano turned his focus to the landscape and inhabitants of Marktown neighborhood in East Chicago, Indiana.[5]

Between 2003–2007 Jordano completed his Articles of Faith project, photographs of small African-American storefront churches on the south and west sides of Chicago.[6]

Jordano's next project was Prairieland, in which he explored the rural landscape of Illinois and its inhabitants.[7]

Publications

  • Assembled works. Paper Mirror, 2003. ISBN 978-0970727831.
  • Articles of Faith: African-American Community Churches in Chicago (Center Books on Chicago and Environs). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1930066977.
  • Detroit: Unbroken Down. Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse, 2015. ISBN 978-1576877791. Text by Nancy Watson Barr, Dawoud Bey and Sharon Zukin.

Exhibitions

Collections

Jordano's work is held in the following collections:

References

  1. ↑ http://petapixel.com/2014/01/18/interview-photographer-dave-jordano-detroit-unbroken/
  2. ↑ https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dave-jordano-detroit-unbroken-down
  3. ↑ Biography
  4. ↑ Chicago Bridge Project
  5. ↑ Marktown
  6. ↑ Articles of Faith
  7. ↑ Prairieland
  8. ↑ Jordano's CV
  9. ↑ Chicago Cultural Center
  10. ↑ "Third Floor Gallery". Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography. Ffotogallery. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  11. ↑ Museum of Contemporary Photography
  12. ↑ Biography
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