Sam Fentress was born in Detroit in 1955 and grew up in Nashville
and Detroit. In 1977 he received his B.A. from Princeton University,
where he studied with Emmet Gowin and Frederick Sommer. He
received his M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago and was
awarded an Emerging Artist Grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts in 1979, and a grant from the Bradley Foundation in
1997-98.
Fentress's photographs have appeared in over seventy-five
magazines including DoubleTake, Image, and First Things. Images
from this series have been in solo and group exhibitions at
Afterimage Gallery in Dallas, O.K. Harris in New York, Fraenkel
Gallery in San Francisco, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His work
is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the
Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the
Saint Louis Art Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and
the collection of film producer Bruce Berman. In 2005 his work was
included in Looking at Los Angeles (Metropolis Books). Fentress
lives with his wife and six children in St. Louis.
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