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Kathryn Kolb Photographs
Kathryn Kolb Photographs
Kathryn
Kolb
Kolb
Kathryn Kolb is a free-lance photographer working in the Atlanta
area since 1985. Born in Indiana, she grew up in the rural
surroundings of Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1983 she received a
BA in History from Emory University in Atlanta, concentrating on
ancient Europe and the Near East. In 1984-5 she took
photography classes at the Southeastern Center for the Arts, in
Atlanta. Although Kolb has had no formal training as an artist,
visual artists are found in both her parents' families, and her
paternal grandfather, Harold H. Kolb, was a noted watercolor
painter working in Boston and the New England area.
Kolb's editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with
strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely
published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling
Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others.
Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: a
series of environmental portraits of regional artists for the
Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless
men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's
Samaritan House, and self-published calendars of Atlanta and
Athens musicians, including artists REM and Indigo Girls. In
1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural
communities in the Dominican Republic. In 1999, through
Soho-Myriad Gallery (Atlanta), Kolb was commissioned to create
non-traditional landmark portraits of the University of Virginia
campus for a permanent installation at the University's Boar's
Head Inn in Charlottesville. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were
recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at
Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers
selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the
public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of
Atlanta in 2008.
Since the mid-nineties Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of
natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series include
black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and
other plants from diverse natural environments. Her most recent
work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often
seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer,
Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works
are straightforward, un-manipulated images, and she uses no
digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all
photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and
prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs can be
found in numerous private and institutional collections including
those of the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, the Arthur M.
Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding (Atlanta), Georgia
Conservancy, Emory's Goizueta Business School, Georgia
Tech, and the City of Atlanta.
In additional to fine art images of natural subjects, Kolb
continues to do environmentally- oriented assignment work. In
1999-2001, Kolb produced calendars for Georgia Forestwatch,
featuring unprotected areas in Georgia's national forests. Her
work was included in the Sierra Club's Clearcut: The Tragedy of
Industrial Forestry, and she illustrated an article on kudzu for the
October 2000 issue of Smithsonian. Two of her Tree Series
photographs were featured in the Oct/Nov 2001 Veranda
magazine. The Wilderness Society commissioned Kolb to
photograph roadless and wilderness areas of the southeastern
Appalachians for the publication, Why Wilderness? What the
Remaining Wildlands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the
People of the Southeast, published in 2004. These photographs
along with others from the southeastern region were exhibited in
a solo show of Kolb's work at the Fernbank Museum of Natural
History (Atlanta) during the summer of 2005.
Kolb's interest in the environment goes beyond her visual
aesthetic. Growing up in rural Virginia and with maternal family
roots in the western North Carolina mountains, she developed a
strong appreciation of the value of natural landscapes. Since
the early nineties Kolb has worked to preserve and restore
native forest environments and care for urban trees and
greenspace. She helped to produce new tree ordinances for
DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta, served on the board of
Georgia Forestwatch, and helped the City of Atlanta acquire a
greenspace in her neighborhood. She is also the principal
founder of Keeping It Wild, a program of The Wilderness
Society, dedicated to bringing diverse partners together with the
conservation community in order to connect urban residents to
natural lands and promote the protection and restoration of
natural and wildlands in Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast. In
August 2005 Kolb and her work were featured as cover story in
the Arts Section of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. In 2007
she was featured on TBS' award-winning television series
Storyline.
Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through
Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Amanda Schedler Fine Art,
Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ.
area since 1985. Born in Indiana, she grew up in the rural
surroundings of Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1983 she received a
BA in History from Emory University in Atlanta, concentrating on
ancient Europe and the Near East. In 1984-5 she took
photography classes at the Southeastern Center for the Arts, in
Atlanta. Although Kolb has had no formal training as an artist,
visual artists are found in both her parents' families, and her
paternal grandfather, Harold H. Kolb, was a noted watercolor
painter working in Boston and the New England area.
Kolb's editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with
strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely
published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling
Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others.
Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: a
series of environmental portraits of regional artists for the
Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless
men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's
Samaritan House, and self-published calendars of Atlanta and
Athens musicians, including artists REM and Indigo Girls. In
1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural
communities in the Dominican Republic. In 1999, through
Soho-Myriad Gallery (Atlanta), Kolb was commissioned to create
non-traditional landmark portraits of the University of Virginia
campus for a permanent installation at the University's Boar's
Head Inn in Charlottesville. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were
recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at
Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers
selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the
public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of
Atlanta in 2008.
Since the mid-nineties Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of
natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series include
black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and
other plants from diverse natural environments. Her most recent
work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often
seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer,
Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works
are straightforward, un-manipulated images, and she uses no
digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all
photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and
prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs can be
found in numerous private and institutional collections including
those of the Georgia Museum in Athens, GA, the Arthur M.
Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding (Atlanta), Georgia
Conservancy, Emory's Goizueta Business School, Georgia
Tech, and the City of Atlanta.
In additional to fine art images of natural subjects, Kolb
continues to do environmentally- oriented assignment work. In
1999-2001, Kolb produced calendars for Georgia Forestwatch,
featuring unprotected areas in Georgia's national forests. Her
work was included in the Sierra Club's Clearcut: The Tragedy of
Industrial Forestry, and she illustrated an article on kudzu for the
October 2000 issue of Smithsonian. Two of her Tree Series
photographs were featured in the Oct/Nov 2001 Veranda
magazine. The Wilderness Society commissioned Kolb to
photograph roadless and wilderness areas of the southeastern
Appalachians for the publication, Why Wilderness? What the
Remaining Wildlands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the
People of the Southeast, published in 2004. These photographs
along with others from the southeastern region were exhibited in
a solo show of Kolb's work at the Fernbank Museum of Natural
History (Atlanta) during the summer of 2005.
Kolb's interest in the environment goes beyond her visual
aesthetic. Growing up in rural Virginia and with maternal family
roots in the western North Carolina mountains, she developed a
strong appreciation of the value of natural landscapes. Since
the early nineties Kolb has worked to preserve and restore
native forest environments and care for urban trees and
greenspace. She helped to produce new tree ordinances for
DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta, served on the board of
Georgia Forestwatch, and helped the City of Atlanta acquire a
greenspace in her neighborhood. She is also the principal
founder of Keeping It Wild, a program of The Wilderness
Society, dedicated to bringing diverse partners together with the
conservation community in order to connect urban residents to
natural lands and promote the protection and restoration of
natural and wildlands in Atlanta, Georgia and the Southeast. In
August 2005 Kolb and her work were featured as cover story in
the Arts Section of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. In 2007
she was featured on TBS' award-winning television series
Storyline.
Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through
Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Amanda Schedler Fine Art,
Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ.
PUBLICATIONS
- Kathryn Kolb Photographs, K2 Press, Atlanta,
2008
- Why Wilderness? What the Remaining Wlldlands
of the Southeastern Appalachians Mean to the
People of the Southeast, The Wilderness Society,
Washington, DC, 2004
- Georgia's Last Wild Places Calendar Georgia
Forestwatch, Ellijay, GA , 2001, 2000,1999
- 1996 Trees Calendar; Times 3 graphic design,
Atlanta, 1996
- Clearcut, The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry,
The Sierra Club/Earth Island Press, San
Francisco, 1993
- I Love You Enough to Let You Go; Printed
Matter, Inc. Atlanta, 1990
Can You See Me? Images of Atlanta's Homeless;
Marmac Publishing Co. Atlanta 1986
- Kathryn Kolb Photographs, K2 Press, Atlanta,
2008
- Why Wilderness? What the Remaining Wlldlands
of the Southeastern Appalachians Mean to the
People of the Southeast, The Wilderness Society,
Washington, DC, 2004
- Georgia's Last Wild Places Calendar Georgia
Forestwatch, Ellijay, GA , 2001, 2000,1999
- 1996 Trees Calendar; Times 3 graphic design,
Atlanta, 1996
- Clearcut, The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry,
The Sierra Club/Earth Island Press, San
Francisco, 1993
- I Love You Enough to Let You Go; Printed
Matter, Inc. Atlanta, 1990
Can You See Me? Images of Atlanta's Homeless;
Marmac Publishing Co. Atlanta 1986