| Jack Parsons' eye has been schooled by different countries and separate media. |
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| Born in New York City, he received BA and MA degrees in English Literature at the University of Colorado, then took a diploma in film-making from The London International Film School. His film credits include cinematography for the Audubon special "The New Range Wars" (1991), the 1989 "Painted Earth" (produced by the Getty Museum with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art) and film festival award-winners such as "A Weave of Time" (1986). |
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| Parsons has produced documentaries on numerous aspects of Southwestern culture and the National Endowment for the Arts sponsored both his three-year survey of santeros (traditional sculptors of devotional figures) and the two-year Entriega Project, which recorded the music of traditional Hispanic musicians. |
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| As well as his work around the world, Parsons has photographed pueblo architecture, lowrider cars, Southwestern landscapes and lived traditions. His editorial work and stock photography include clients from the National Geographic Society to Singapore Airlines; his photos are seen in publications from Actuel and Geo to America's Forbes and the New York Times. |
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| Jack Parsons has fourteen books to his credit, including "Santa Fe Houses", "True West" and "Native America" (Clarkson Potter); "Santa Fe Style" and "Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico" (Rizzoli); and "New Mexico Artists at Work", "The Chile Chronicles" and "Spanish New Mexico" (The Museum of New Mexico Press) and "Heaven's Window" (Graphic Arts). He also photographed "Lone Star Living" (Bullfinch). |
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