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Anne-Katrin Purkiss is a photographer, born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany in 1959 and moving to Britain in 1984 after graduating from University of Leipzig in 1983. Her father Joachim Seyffarth (1928—2014) was a German curator of monuments and photographer. Her Sculptors project 〔Sculptors 1986-2007 Orleans House Gallery ISBN 978-1-4276-2471-0〕 documented sculptors in their working environment and includes portraits of Elisabeth Frink, Kenneth Armitage, Andy Goldsworthy, Sir Anthony Caro and Lynn Chadwick. A collection of her portraits of British scientists is held by the Royal Society and was shown in part in a display at the National Portrait Gallery, including portraits of Sir Alec Jeffreys, Lord Darzi, Sir Martin Evans, Sir Tim Hunt and Dame Louise Johnson. Between 2008 and 2011 she compiled a photographic record of the restoration of the Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey; England's only gallery devoted to the work of a single artist. It houses sculpture and paintings by the Victorian George Frederic Watts. Her early work includes a large number of photographs of her childhood and youth in the GDR (East Germany) which is catalogued in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library).〔http://d-nb.info/gnd/142034932〕 She works primarily in black-and-white, using available light and Hasselblad. ==Works in public collection== There are over 100 photographic portraits by Purkiss in the National Portrait Gallery collection〔http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp10637&role=art〕 including portraits of Denis Thatcher, Enoch Powell, Simon Rattle and Georg Solti. Further images are in the collections of the Library of the Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society in London, the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and the Arts Council Archive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anne-Katrin Purkiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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