Pirkle jones biography

          Biography.!

          Pirkle Jones

          American photographer

          Pirkle Jones (January 2, 1914 – March 15, 2009)[1][2] was an American documentary photographer and educator.

          Pirkle Jones lived in California from the mids on, photographing the state and its inhabitants with understanding and sympathy.

        1. Pirkle Jones | American, - Noted photographer and educator Pirkle Jones died on Sunday, March 15, in San Rafael, California at the age of
        2. Biography.
        3. Pirkle Jones (–), born in Shreveport, Louisiana, started photographing when he was seventeen.
        4. Born in in Shreveport, LA, Jones' career began with the purchase of a Kodak Brownie when he was seventeen years old.

          5. Biography

          Pirkle Jones was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His first experience with photography was when he bought a Kodak Brownie at the age of seventeen. In the 1930s, his photographs were featured in pictorialist salons and publications.

          He served four years in the army during World War II in the 37th division and went to the Fiji Islands, New Georgia, Guadalcanal, and the Philippines.

          Pirkle Jones was an American documentary photographer and educator.

          After the war, Jones entered the first class in photography offered by the California School of Fine Arts. There he met the artists and instructors that helped him develop his talents: Ansel Adams, Minor White, Edward Weston, and Dorothea Lange.[3] Jones worked as Ansel Adams' assistant for 6 years, and the two photographers forged a lifelong friendship.

          Dorothea Lange came to him in 1956 with an idea to co