Mary DuPont
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Artistic Statement
Art, done well, becomes a universal language. In my photography, I
reduce the chaos of the visual world to a simpler form of light and
shadow. In each photograph, I hope to touch my viewer’s mind with
either the thought that, “yes, that is how I feel when I look at
this place”, or “I never knew it could look like this ...”
A photograph done well, will want to be looked at as much today as it
does tomorrow or years from now. In the process of photography, I find
my solitude, while the photograph itself gives me time. My photographs
do not always hang by the rhetoric; thus they must speak for
themselves. |
Mary DuPont continues to photograph the cityscapes and landscapes of
Colorado as she has done so for the past twenty years. She lives and works
in her native town of Leadville, Colorado. For the first ten years she
worked completely in black and white photography. She received an A.A. in
Creative Photography in 1979 at the Colorado Mountain College, Timberline
Campus in Leadville. There she studied under Glenn Rand and Lawrence
McFarland.
She continued her studies in photography at Metropolitan State College
in Denver under Barbara Houghton. There she received her B.A. degree in
English Literature in 1982. During her stay at Metro she continued
pursuing her interests in art and photo histories.
Upon her return to Leadville she became interested in color photography
when she took a color class from Tom Lamb at Colorado Mountain College. It
was also at this time that she married Leadville artist Art DuPont. For
the past thirteen years they have been raising their two children, a son,
Camille (13) and a daughter, Claire (12). Mary has also worked at the
Leadville Picture Company, a photography studio in Leadville, doing its
black and white darkroom work. She has also done some commercial work
shooting weddings, team photos, etc.
Seven years ago, she and her husband, Art, started a T-shirt business,
DuPont Graphics, in which Art produces the drawings and she does the
lettering. Both work together printing the shirts in their home and studio
at 510 East 11th Street in Leadville, Colorado. Mary can be reached here
or by phone at 719-486-0701 or e-mail at adupont@chaffee.net. Her
photographs can be seen at the Leadville Alpaca Company and Gallery at 115
East 7th Street in Leadville.
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