Daily News | Martha Madigan, pioneering photography artist and Temple professor emerita, has died at 72
Martha Madigan, 72, of Elkins Park, pioneering photography artist and professor emerita of the photography program at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture, died Monday, Aug. 22, of metastatic lung cancer at her home.
Fascinated by art and image even as a child, Ms. Madigan spent her celebrated career exploring camera-less photography, cyanotype, photograms, traditional photography, and other artistic forms. She fashioned her first pinhole camera as a teenager, hosted her first solo show at 23, and went on to create countless dramatic images of colors, shapes, and figures that are displayed around the world.
“The process of my work reflects the passages of life, seeking not an understanding of time, but rather an experience of the sacred presence within it,” Ms. Madigan said on her website,“May my work be a boat that carries me safely down the relentless river of time across the ocean of worldliness.” Using photographic paper, sunlight, objects placed on the paper, and gold chloride toner, Ms. Madigan was able to create forms silhouetted by light that, she said, “make each such print unique, providing the magic of the unexpected.” Some of her most well-known projects are “
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