Art

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These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the north Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted…

My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history. Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the “wild,” how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and to alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We…

  (A sign in an abandoned school library in New Orleans) I have a standard lecture I give in photography classes called “All Photos Lie.” The conceit is that any photographic image can only be a poor approximation of “reality,”…

The sense of foreboding tinged with playful fantasy, characteristic of many of my photographs, is mimicked in a suite of complex, layered compositions in ink, graphite, paint, and other materials sandwiched between sheets of mylar and plexiglass. Mimicking the layering…

Born April 16, 1940 in Highland Park, New Jersey, Joan Snyder received her AB from Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1962) and an MFA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1966). She was the recipient of a National…