Stoa, Samothrace from the Temples of Greece portfolio
Stoa, Samothrace from the Temples of Greece portfolio, 1979
Mary Peck (American, born 1952)
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Mary Peck is an American photographer who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1952. Peck found her passion for photography in a 1971 summer workshop at the Center of the Eye in Aspen, Colorado, where she attended lectures taught by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Garry Winogrand. She went on to receive a BFA in photography at Utah State University and apprenticed with the photographer Laura Gilpin. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1982. Peck works almost exclusively in black and white, and always uses film, explaining how “the processing of film and the craft of making prints” is a “magical part of the photographic process.” She has photographed around the world and often captures the human impact on the natural environment in her work.
