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Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery will be exhibiting for the first time in Dallas the photography of Jock Sturges. This exhibition will include early and new works to coincide with the release of his new book New Work, 1996-2000 (Scalo Publishing). He will be attending the opening and will lecture, Saturday, February 3 at 2 pm at the MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary).

Jock Sturges' sensual black-and-white photographs have been featured in museums throughout the world. His subjects include women, men and children who live in communities where nudity is part of the accepted lifestyle. The secluded beauty of Northern California's rivers and woods and the beaches of Montalivet in France provide a dramatic setting forn Sturges' photographs. Jock usually spends weeks or months with his subjects, and they feel like his collaborators. Sturges accomplishes in his open-ended projects the continuing investigation into the engagement between public and private life, between tact and frankness, childhood and adolescence, male and female, artist and model. These stately images reflect self-revelation, trust, admiration, and the inevitable passage from adolescence to adulthood.

After Jock's studio was raided by the FBI in 1991, a grand jury declined to indict him on charges of child pornography on constitutional free speech ground. Since then, more than 40 protests have been staged at various bookstores across the country.

Sturges received a B.A. in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College in Vermont and an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has exhibited widely in the United States as well as in France and Japan. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, andBibliothéque Nationale in Paris.