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, Architecture, 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 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.
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, Architecture, 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 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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