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{{short description|American photographer}}
{{short description|American photographer (born 1947)}}
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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Jock Sturges
| name = Jock Sturges
| image = Jock Sturges in Brno 2013.jpg
| image = Jock Sturges in Brno 2013.jpg
| caption = Sturges in 2013
| caption = Sturges in 2013
| birth_name = John Sturges
| birth_date = 1947
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}}
| birth_place = [[New York City|New York]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], U.S.
| alma_mater = [[Marlboro College]] ([[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]])<br>[[San Francisco Art Institute]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])
| education = [[Marlboro College]] ([[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]])<br />[[San Francisco Art Institute]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])
| occupation = [[Photographer]]
| occupation = Photographer
}}
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'''John Sturges''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɜr|dʒ|ɪ|s}}; born 1947), known as '''Jock Sturges''', is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude [[Adolescence|adolescents]] and their families.


==Early life and education==
'''Jock Sturges''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɜr|dʒ|ɪ|s}}; born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude [[Adolescence|adolescents]] and their families.
Sturges was born in 1947 in New York. From 1966 to 1970, he served in the [[United States Navy]] as a Russian linguist. He graduated with a BFA in [[Perceptual psychology]] and Photography from [[Marlboro College]] and received an MFA in photography from the [[San Francisco Art Institute]].<ref name="R1"/>
== Career ==
His subjects are nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort [[CHM Montalivet]] in Vendays-Montalivet. Much of his work features California resident Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a child until in her twenties.<ref name="R2"/>
Sturges primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera. He has taken some digital photographs but prefers to work with film.<ref name="R3"/>
His work has been the subject of controversy in the United States. In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by [[FBI]] agents and his equipment seized. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him.<ref name="R4"/><ref name="R5"/> In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books ''[[The Last Day of Summer (book)|The Last Day of Summer]]'' and ''[[Radiant Identities]]'' classed as child pornography in Arkansas and Louisiana.<ref name="R6"/><ref name="R7"/> Customers in Alabama and Tennessee sued [[Barnes & Noble]] for stocking the books, resulting in protests throughout the United States, largely inspired by conservative radio host [[Randall Terry]].<ref name="R8"/>
His photographs appear as cover art on three novels by [[Jennifer McMahon (writer)|Jennifer McMahon]], ''[[Promise Not to Tell]]'', ''Island of Lost Girls'' and ''Dismantled'', as well as [[Karl Ove Knausgård]]'s 1998 [[debut novel]] ''[[Ute av verden]]'' (''Out of the World''). The band [[Ride (band)|Ride]] used some of his photographs on different releases, i.e.: the ''[[Twisterella]]'' and ''Leave them All Behind'' EPs.


==Life and work==
==Personal life==
In 2021, Sturges pleaded guilty in Franklin County (MA) Superior Court to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child under 16 when he was a dorm head at the [[Northfield Mount Hermon School]] in the mid-1970s. He was sentenced to three years' probation.<ref name="R9"/><ref name="R10"/><ref name="R11"/>
Sturges was born in 1947 in New York. From 1966 to 1970, he served in the [[United States Navy]] as a Russian linguist. He graduated with a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|BFA]] in [[Perceptual psychology|Perceptual Psychology]] and [[Photography]] from [[Marlboro College]] and received an [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] in photography from the [[San Francisco Art Institute]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509194410/http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/Sturges/|title=Jock Sturges|work=kochgallery.com|accessdate=February 23, 2013}}</ref>

His subjects are nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in [[Northern California]] and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort [[CHM Montalivet]] in [[Montolivet]]. Much of his work features California resident Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a child until in her twenties.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4653 |title=Review – Misty Dawn |last1=Perring |first1=Christian |year=2009 |work=metapsychology.mentalhelp.net |publisher= |accessdate=February 23, 2013}}</ref>

Sturges primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera. He has taken some [[digital photography|digital photographs]] but prefers to work with [[Photographic printing|prints]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pdnonline.com/Search-420.shtml?kw=%22david+hamilton%22&x=0&y=0&exposeNavigation=true&action=Submit&searchInterface=Keyword&matchType=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&an=superPdn&sb=RELEVANCY_WEIGHT |title=Catching Up with; The Way of All Flesh |last1=Beem |first1=Edgar Allen |date=January 3, 2008 |work=[[Photo District News]] |publisher= |accessdate=February 23, 2013}}</ref>

His work has been the subject of controversy in the United States. In 1990, his [[San Francisco]] studio was raided by [[FBI]] officers and his equipment seized. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.19.98/cover/sturges1-9811.html |title=Naked Truth |last1=Steinberg |first1=David |date=March 19, 1998 |work=[[Metroactive.com]] |publisher= |accessdate=February 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/weekinreview/the-nation-pornography-meets-paranoia.html|title=THE NATION; Pornography Meets Paranoia|last=Carvajal|first=Doreen|date=1995-02-19|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-09-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books ''[[The Last Day of Summer (book)|The Last Day of Summer]]'' and ''[[Radiant Identities]]'' classed as child pornography in [[Arkansas]] and [[Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Lane |first=III Frederick |authorlink= |title=Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qQnlc2RFZYC&pg=PA126&dq=%22the+age+of+innocence%22+%22david+hamilton%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=360gUcXmOsW9kAWA14GYDA&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22the%20age%20of%20innocence%22%20%22david%20hamilton%22&f=false |accessdate=February 17, 2013 |year=2001 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location= |isbn=978-0415931038 |page=126}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/19/us/obscenity-case-is-settled.html |title=Obscenity Case Is Settled |date=May 19, 1998 |website=[[The New York Times]] |publisher= |accessdate=May 22, 2013}}</ref> Customers in [[Alabama]] and [[Tennessee]] sued [[Barnes & Noble]] for stocking the books, resulting in protests throughout the United States, largely inspired by conservative radio host [[Randall Terry]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/20/us/barnes-noble-vows-to-stock-art-books-despite-indictments.html|title=Barnes & Noble Vows to Stock Art Books Despite Indictments|last=Carvajal|first=Doreen|date=1998-02-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-09-08|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

His photographs appear as cover art on three novels by [[Jennifer McMahon (writer)|Jennifer McMahon]], ''[[Promise Not to Tell]]'', ''Island of Lost Girls'' and ''Dismantled'', as well as [[Karl Ove Knausgård]]'s 1998 [[debut novel]] ''[[Ute av verden]]'' (''Out of the World''). The band [[Ride (band)|Ride]] used some of his photographs on different releases, i.e.: the ''[[Twisterella]]'' and ''Leave them All Behind'' EPs.


==Publications==
==Publications==
===Publications by Sturges===
===His published collections include===
*''[[The Last Day of Summer (book)|The Last Day of Summer]]'' (1991, [[Aperture (magazine)|Aperture]], NY) {{ISBN|0-89381-538-1}}
*''[[The Last Day of Summer (book)|The Last Day of Summer]]'' (1991, [[Aperture (magazine)|Aperture]], NY) {{ISBN|0-89381-538-1}}
*''[[Radiant Identities]]'' (1994, Aperture, NY)
*''[[Radiant Identities]]'' (1994, Aperture, NY)
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*''Jock Sturges: Notes'' (2004, Aperture, NY)
*''Jock Sturges: Notes'' (2004, Aperture, NY)
*''[[Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse]]'' (2008, Aperture, NY)
*''[[Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse]]'' (2008, Aperture, NY)
*''Jock Sturges Life Time'' (2008 [[Steidl]])
*''Jock Sturges: Life Time'' (2008 [[Steidl]])
*''The Rollei Project (2013 Foto Henny Hoogeveen, Lisse, The Netherlands)''
*''Jock Sturges Fanny'' (2014 Steidl)
*''Jock Sturges: Fanny'' (2014 Steidl)
*''The Leica Project (2019 Foto Henny Hoogeveen, Lisse, The Netherlands)''


===Other noted publications include===
===Other noted publications include===
*''Montage'' (Graham Webb International)
*''Montage'' (Graham Webb International)
*''Standing on Water'' (1991, Catalogue of Portfolio published by Paul Cava Fine Art, Philadelphia)
*''Standing on Water'' (1991, Catalogue of portfolio published by Paul Cava Fine Art, Philadelphia)
*''Jock Sturges Color'' (Catalogue of Portfolio published by Ataraxia, Bensalem)
*''Jock Sturges Color'' (Catalogue of portfolio published by Ataraxia, Bensalem)
*''Line of Beauty and Grace'' (2007 Amadelio Films). Documentary
==Films==

*''Line of Beauty and Grace'' (2007, Amadelio) – documentary
===Limited edition portfolios of original photographs===
*''Standing On Water'' (Paul Cava Fine Art, 1991, boxed portfolio of ten oversized 20x24 inch gelatin silver photographs)
*''Jock Sturges: Twenty-Five Years'' (Paul Cava Fine Art, 2004, boxed portfolio of ten 11x14 inch gelatin silver photographs)
*''Jock Sturges Platinum'' Edition of 10 signature platinum photographs (Russell Levin Gallery Monterey California 2007)

==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name="R1">{{cite web
| title = A documentary about Jock Sturges | last = Sturges | first = Jock
| date = September 22, 2022 | url = https://amadelio.org/a-documentary-about-jock-sturges/}}
</ref>
<ref name="R2">{{cite web
| title = Review – Misty Dawn | last = Perring | first = Christian | year = 2009
| work = Metapsychology Online Reviess | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | access-date = February 23, 2013
| url = http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4653
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170509194410/http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/Sturges/
| url-status = dead | archive-date = May 9, 2017}}
</ref>
<ref name="R3">{{cite web
| title = Catching Up with; The Way of All Flesh | last = Beem | first = Edgar Allen
| date = January 3, 2008 | work = [[Photo District News]] | access-date = February 23, 2013
| url = http://www.pdnonline.com/Search-420.shtml?kw=%22david+hamilton%22&x=0&y=0&exposeNavigation=true&action=Submit&searchInterface=Keyword&matchType=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&an=superPdn&sb=RELEVANCY_WEIGHT
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924070007/http://www.pdnonline.com/Search-420.shtml?kw=%22david+hamilton%22&x=0&y=0&exposeNavigation=true&action=Submit&searchInterface=Keyword&matchType=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&an=superPdn&sb=RELEVANCY_WEIGHT
| archive-date = September 24, 2015 | url-status = dead }}
</ref>
<ref name="R4">{{cite web
| title = Naked Truth | last = Steinberg | first = David | date = March 19, 1998
| work = [[Metroactive.com]]
| url = http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.19.98/cover/sturges1-9811.html
| access-date = August 18, 2022}}
</ref>
<ref name="R5">{{Cite news
| title = THE NATION; Pornography Meets Paranoia | last = Carvajal | first = Doreen
| date = February 1, 1995 | work = The New York Times | access-date = September 8, 2019
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/19/weekinreview/the-nation-pornography-meets-paranoia.html
| language = en-US | issn = 0362-4331}}
</ref>
<ref name="R6">{{cite book
| last = Lane | first = Frederick S.
| title = Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age | page = 126
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6qQnlc2RFZYC&dq=%22the+age+of+innocence%22+%22david+hamilton%22&pg=PA126
| access-date = February 17, 2013 | year = 2001 | publisher = [[Routledge]] | isbn = 978-0415931038}}
</ref>
<ref name="R7">{{cite web
| title = Obscenity Case Is Settled | date = May 19, 1998 | website = [[The New York Times]]
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/19/us/obscenity-case-is-settled.html
| access-date = May 22, 2013}}
</ref>
<ref name="R8">{{Cite news
| title = Barnes & Noble Vows to Stock Art Books Despite Indictments | last = Carvajal | first = Doreen
| date = February 2, 1998 | work = The New York Times | language = en-US | issn = 0362-4331
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/20/us/barnes-noble-vows-to-stock-art-books-despite-indictments.html
| access-date = September 8, 2019}}
</ref>
<ref name="R9">{{Cite web
| first = Domenic | last = Poli | date = November 15, 2021 | publisher = Greenfield Recorder
| title = Former NMH dorm head admits to having sex with minor, charge stems from 1975
| url = https://www.recorder.com/Former-NMH-dorm-head-admits-to-having-sex-with-minor-charge-stems-from-1975-43557486
| access-date = August 18, 2022}}
</ref>
<ref name="R10">{{Cite web
| first = Domenic | last = Poli | date = September 24, 2020 | publisher = Greenfield Recorder
| title = Hearing held for former NMH teacher accused of statutory rape 40 years ago
| url = https://www.recorder.com/Hearing-held-for-photographer-accused-of-statutory-rape-at-NMH-40-years-ago-36404608
| access-date = August 18, 2022}}
</ref>
<ref name="R11">{{cite web
| first = Diane | last = Broncaccio | date = May 12, 2017 | publisher = Greenfield Recorder
| title = Photographer facing statutory rape charges
| url = https://www.recorder.com/Photographer-arraigned-on-statuatory-rape-charges-9866341
| access-date = August 18, 2022}}
</ref>
}}


==External links==
==External links==
*amadelio: [https://amadelio.org/jock-sturges-line-of-beauty-and-grace/ Interview with Jock Sturges, Montalivet, France], July 2007
*[http://www.trishsouth.com/SITE/Photographers/Jock_Sturges/index.php?page=Art Jock Sturges' Portfolio at Trish South Management]
*{{worldcat id|id=lccn-n92-88096}}
*amadelio: [http://www.amadelio.com/vlog/2008/01/10/vlog-videoblog-jock-sturges-line-of-beauty-and-grace Interview with Jock Sturges, Montalivet, France], July 2007

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Latest revision as of 18:40, 15 August 2024

Jock Sturges
Sturges in 2013
Born
John Sturges

1947 (age 77–78)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationMarlboro College (BFA)
San Francisco Art Institute (MFA)
OccupationPhotographer

John Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born 1947), known as Jock Sturges, is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.

Early life and education

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Sturges was born in 1947 in New York. From 1966 to 1970, he served in the United States Navy as a Russian linguist. He graduated with a BFA in Perceptual psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.[1]

Career

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His subjects are nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort CHM Montalivet in Vendays-Montalivet. Much of his work features California resident Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a child until in her twenties.[2]

Sturges primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera. He has taken some digital photographs but prefers to work with film.[3]

His work has been the subject of controversy in the United States. In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI agents and his equipment seized. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him.[4][5] In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in Arkansas and Louisiana.[6][7] Customers in Alabama and Tennessee sued Barnes & Noble for stocking the books, resulting in protests throughout the United States, largely inspired by conservative radio host Randall Terry.[8]

His photographs appear as cover art on three novels by Jennifer McMahon, Promise Not to Tell, Island of Lost Girls and Dismantled, as well as Karl Ove Knausgård's 1998 debut novel Ute av verden (Out of the World). The band Ride used some of his photographs on different releases, i.e.: the Twisterella and Leave them All Behind EPs.

Personal life

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In 2021, Sturges pleaded guilty in Franklin County (MA) Superior Court to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child under 16 when he was a dorm head at the Northfield Mount Hermon School in the mid-1970s. He was sentenced to three years' probation.[9][10][11]

Publications

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Publications by Sturges

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  • The Last Day of Summer (1991, Aperture, NY) ISBN 0-89381-538-1
  • Radiant Identities (1994, Aperture, NY)
  • Evolution of Grace (1994, Gakken, Tokyo)
  • Jock Sturges (1996, Scalo, Zürich)
  • Jock Sturges: New Work, 1996–2000 (2000, Scalo, Zürich)
  • Jock Sturges: Twenty-Five Years (2004, Paul Cava Fine Art, Bala Cynwyd, PA)
  • Jock Sturges: Notes (2004, Aperture, NY)
  • Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse (2008, Aperture, NY)
  • Jock Sturges: Life Time (2008 Steidl)
  • The Rollei Project (2013 Foto Henny Hoogeveen, Lisse, The Netherlands)
  • Jock Sturges: Fanny (2014 Steidl)
  • The Leica Project (2019 Foto Henny Hoogeveen, Lisse, The Netherlands)

Other noted publications include

[edit]
  • Montage (Graham Webb International)
  • Standing on Water (1991, Catalogue of portfolio published by Paul Cava Fine Art, Philadelphia)
  • Jock Sturges Color (Catalogue of portfolio published by Ataraxia, Bensalem)

Films

[edit]
  • Line of Beauty and Grace (2007, Amadelio) – documentary

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Sturges, Jock (September 22, 2022). "A documentary about Jock Sturges".
  2. ^ Perring, Christian (2009). "Review – Misty Dawn". Metapsychology Online Reviess. Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  3. ^ Beem, Edgar Allen (January 3, 2008). "Catching Up with; The Way of All Flesh". Photo District News. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  4. ^ Steinberg, David (March 19, 1998). "Naked Truth". Metroactive.com. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  5. ^ Carvajal, Doreen (February 1, 1995). "THE NATION; Pornography Meets Paranoia". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  6. ^ Lane, Frederick S. (2001). Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in the Cyber Age. Routledge. p. 126. ISBN 978-0415931038. Retrieved February 17, 2013.
  7. ^ "Obscenity Case Is Settled". The New York Times. May 19, 1998. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  8. ^ Carvajal, Doreen (February 2, 1998). "Barnes & Noble Vows to Stock Art Books Despite Indictments". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  9. ^ Poli, Domenic (November 15, 2021). "Former NMH dorm head admits to having sex with minor, charge stems from 1975". Greenfield Recorder. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  10. ^ Poli, Domenic (September 24, 2020). "Hearing held for former NMH teacher accused of statutory rape 40 years ago". Greenfield Recorder. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  11. ^ Broncaccio, Diane (May 12, 2017). "Photographer facing statutory rape charges". Greenfield Recorder. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
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