Gay Block (born 1942) - Untitled (Camp photo #19) - 1981 Conterporary Arts Museum print 1982 Gelatin silver print Shot 1981 Series 'Camp Pinecliffe' The photo is dated: MAY 23 82 and MAY 30 1982 Measures - 20.4 cm x 25.1 cm More annotation and museum label on reverse Very good condition with little sign of the age - see photos for details. Provenance: - A. Stanic Collection Biography Gay Block (born 1942) is a fine art portrait photographer, who was born in Houston, Texas. Her work has been published in books, and is collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the New Mexico Museum of Art. By the 1970s she began taking pictures of members of her own affluent Jewish community in Houston. She later photographed an older Jewish community of retirees in South Miami Beach, many of whom were Holocaust survivors. Block also photographed girls at summer camp. In 2006, Block re-photographed women who were the girls in her 1981 series from Camp Pinecliffe, twenty-five years earlier.