I'm sorry to report that Joe Deal, of Providence, Rhode Island, who we last talked about here, died of his illness last friday. Joe's pictures are elegant, analytical, accurate, and austere, with elements of abstraction, usually showing the raw encroachment of new development on landscape that still shows its natural contours and textures. There is an obituary at the St. Louis website stltoday.com (he was the Dean of the Art School at Washington University there during the '90s), and you can read a little about his post-New-Topographics work The Fault Zone at Robert Mann.
Sincere condolences to his wife, daughter, and father, as well as to his many students and friends.
Mike
(Thanks to Kent Phelan)
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It is really sad news. When I learned that the Center of Creative Photography was holding an exhibition of his work, I wished I would have been in Tucson. Many emotions come to my mind. I did my Ph.D. in electrical engineering at U of A at the end of the '80s. My graduate student office was one block away from the Center of Creative Photography. Every time I could I went to the Center to read many, many books and go over many, many prints from many, many photographers. I learned quite a bit there. I'm not a gifted photographer but I own much of my photographic knowledge to my time I spent in the Center.
Regards
Posted by: Marcelo Guarini | Friday, 25 June 2010 at 07:33 PM