1984 RAY McSAVANEY (American 1938-2014) Signed #6/70 Silver Gelatin Photo California Plaza

Title: EXPLORATIONS: California Plaza Construction
Photographer: McSavaney, Ray (American 1938-2014)
Place Published: [Los Angeles]
Date Published:1984
Description: Gelatin silver print mounted in mat, presented in folder with printed label. Image: 25x33.6 cm (9¾x13¼"); matted: 40.7x51 cm (16x20"). No. 6 of an edition limited to 70 copies.
Signed and numbered by Ray McSavaney on mount. Photographer's stamp on reverse of mat with pencilled limitation.
Ray McSavaney, born in Los Angeles studied architecture and design. Until 1979, he worked mostly in architectural firms in their urban planning department. From 1972 to 1979 he was the Project Planner for Playa Vista project in west Los Angeles. His interest in photography began around 1970 as a form of documenting backpacking trips in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and intensified in 1972 when he attended his first Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshop. Over the next twelve years he attended many workshops, initially as a student and later as a workshop assistant and came in contact with a varied group of instructors, including Ansel Adams, Robert Heineken, Paul Caponigro, Roger Minick, Arnold Newman, Ellen Landweber, Duane Michaels, and Ruth Bernhard. In 1975, he and Bruce Barnbaum co-founded the Owens Valley Photography Workshops, which was joined by John Sexton in 1976 with the partnership lasting for sixteen years. He then started his own workshop program, which lasted until the present. In 1992 his book, Explorations, was selected as one of the fifty best books by the America Institute of Graphic Arts. Over his career he has taught over 200 workshops.