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Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton is a fine art and media photographer whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide. He has been published in magazines such as Abitare, Archetype, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Photographer’s Forum, and View Camera. His most recent book, Creole World, published in 2014 by The Historic New Orleans Collection, is the 12th book he has authored, co-authored, or photographed. Previously published titles include a monograph, Terra Incognita: Photographs of America’s Third Coast, published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, in 2007. Chronicle Books also published the best selling New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence in 1993 and Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road in 1999. To date Sexton has over 300,000 books in print. In 1997 Sexton curated the exhibit Sidney Bechet: A World of Jazz 1897-1997, which commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the influential jazz musician’s birth. Sexton has had major solo museum exhibitions at the Frost Art Museum in Miami, FL, (2015); the Pensacola Museum of Art in Pensacola, FL (2015); The Historic New Orleans Collection (2014); the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida (2014); the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS (2010); the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (2007 and 2005); among others. Sexton’s photographs are included in the permanent holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, LSU Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum, Pensacola Museum of Art, and numerous private collections. In 2014, Richard Sexton received the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Also in 2014, he was an award recipient in American Photography magazine’s Latin America Fotografia 3 annual.

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Camera & Technology

Multistitch

The current state of the art of the various “formats” of digital capture range from the tiny little sensors in camera phones to MF sensors...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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December 28, 2022

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23 minutes read


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Photography Tomorrow

This is the third and concluding segment in a series, which began with PHOTOGRAPHY THEN, published on LuLa in December 2015. The second essay, PHOTOGRAPHY...
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Richard Sexton

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February 20, 2017

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28 minutes read


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An Era Ends for Ebony View Camera

Ebony Camera is not exactly a household name in the photographic community, or in the mainstream of camera manufacturing for that matter. But for those...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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June 28, 2016

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8 minutes read


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Photography Now

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW – Part Of A Continuing Series By Richard Sexton The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of pen and...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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June 4, 2016

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31 minutes read


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Photography Then, Now, and Tomorrow - Part 3 of 3

On the fine art side of the equation, photography was coming into its own in the 70s. The elevation of photography to art form, comparable...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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January 10, 2016

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12 minutes read


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Photography Then, Now, and Tomorrow - Part 2 of 3

In happier times, when magazines were flourishing, Mike’s narrative of learning about photography through the big picture magazines, was much like mine, and was, I’m...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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January 9, 2016

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9 minutes read


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Photography Then, Now, and Tomorrow - Part 1 of 3

Photography Then is installment one of a three part essay devoted to the practice of photography and its relative place in popular culture and the...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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January 8, 2016

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13 minutes read


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A Redux Critique of Contemporary Camera Design

In the evolution of design, all we can be sure of is that new designs represent the addition of something unfamiliar to something that is...
Richard Sexton

Richard Sexton

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April 2, 2014

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42 minutes read