Jim Stone (American, 1947- )

After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in architecture, Jim Stone completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. He works within several traditions from the documentary to postmodern discourse. As an artist, Stone approaches the medium with ideas from the spectrum of the history of photography. His work extends and challenges traditions, which are entering into the new potentials of digital print technologies. He is currently is Associate Professor in the internationally renowned photography program in the Art & Art History Department at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Historiostomy: A Study in Repurposing Content. Essay by Johan Szarkowagus. Albuquerque: Piltdown Press, 2001.

A Short Course in Photography. 4th Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. 3rd Edition, New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1986.

A User's Guide to the View Camera. New York: HarperCollins, 1987. Second Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Also in Dutch/Flemish translation as Handboek Technische Camera. Leusden. The Netherlands: Uitgeverij Foto, 1989.

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