In September 2016, the New Mexico Museum of Art held an open house to give the public a behind the scenes look at its workings. To promote the event, the museum took out an ad in The Santa Fe New Mexican‘s weekly art magazine, Pasatiempo. To illustrate the ad they used a photo that I did in 1975 of MOA workers, Edna Robertson (l.) and Elvie Ogard (r.).
As a result of the museum using this old photo of mine, it occurred to me that, in the many years I’ve lived in New Mexico, I’ve photographed many artists and others involved in the arts. Some are no longer living. So I got busy gathering as many images as I could find to honor and celebrate these creative workers with whom I have been fortunate enough to have crossed paths. The photographs fall into two distinct groups, early and recent, or black and white and color. I will present them that way for the sake of historic and visual continuity.
Early Portraits: 1974 – 1990s
Note: You can stop the slide show at any time and just click your way through the images.
Recent Portraits: 2000 – present
Note: You can stop the slide show at any time and just click your way through the images.
Alex Traube Photography 