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Josephine Sacabo

Teaches at Los Angeles Center of Photography

Josephine Sacabo (www.josephinesacabo.com) lives and works mostly in New Orleans where she has been strongly influenced by the unique ambience of the city. She is a native of Laredo, Texas, and was educated at Bard College, New York. Previous to coming to New Orleans, she lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photo-journalisitic tradition, influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspective style and divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico She uses poetry as the genesis of her work and lists poets as her most important influences, among them Rilke, Baudelaire, Pedro Salinas, Vicente Huiobro, and Juan Rulfo, Mallarmé, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
 
She has had 7 books of her work published: “Une Femme Habitée” by Editions Marval in Paris in 1991, award winning “Pedro Páramo” by the University of Texas Press in 2002, “Cante Jondo” , “The Duino Elegies”, “Gilded Circles and Sure Trouble” all by 21ST Editions and “Óyeme Con Los Ojos” and “Nocturnes” by Luna Press.
 
Her work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Art Institute, Chicago, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Smithsonian, Washington DC, The Library of Congress, The Wittliff Collection, Austin TX, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum Of Southern Art, New Orleans, The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and La Maison de la Photo, Paris, among others.
 
She has taught highly acclaimed workshops at the Center For Photography at Woodstock, The Santa Fe Workshops and the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles France.

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