ISO Gallery
In order to share the wealth of our collections, Lou Jones Studio has created full-scale exhibition packages with photographs from previously curated shows that are available for rental. The exhibitions include curatorial and educational information. There is often a book that goes along with the photographs.
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every color has a different song
description: This exhibit constitutes many of the more dramatic moments while on assignments. If you eliminate all the portraits, architecture, landscapes from the serious traveler’s pictures, you are left with a few rare and unique “snapshots”. Jones has tried to turn these into art.
These pictures are about people: people as fugitives in their environments. Portraying them truthfully is a matter of conscience. They are urban, therefore, sudden. They take reality by surprise. Many of the pictures are transient. Lasting only a fleeting moment. An hour. A month. Rarely more than a generation.
The exhibit is a "work in progress" and is constantly evolving. The photographs have been taken in Africa, Central America, Japan, South America, Europe, USA, etc. First world and third. And they will continue to be.
This exhibition is especially suited for diverse populations.
Can be sized to specific space as frame sizes range from 16x20 to 30x40.
travel+PHOTOGRAPHY book is a companion publication.
Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, September 2007
Gallery 20/20, Washington, DC, August 2001
University of Massachusetts Medical Center Gallery, Amherst, MA, February 1992
Trinity College, Hartford, CT, August 1992
final exposure: portraits from death row
description: A series of powerful black and white photographs of death row inmates.
The twenty-seven inmates in eleven states act as a metaphor for our criminal justice system. These portraits humanize the condemned men and women of all nationalities without minimizing the magnitude of their crimes or the pain of the victims and their families. They initiate the debate over the death penalty.
The photographs are from Jones’s book Final Exposure that combines the photographs with revealing interviews by Jones and Lorie Savel Borges. The exhibition opens one's eyes to the chilling reality of death row.
This exhibition has 27 prints, framed black metal, size 20x24.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX April 2008
New England College Gallery, Henniker, NH February 2006
Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Boston, MA, October 2005
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, February 2005
Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, MT, January 2004
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Art, Boston, MA March 2003
Smithsonian Institution
olympics: fast, high, strong
description: Photographs from 21 years of covering the summer and winter Olympic Games.
Action packed, moments frozen in time from the 1984 games in Los Angeles to the 2006 games in Torino. Snowboarding, speed skating, ski jumping, track and field, cycling, weightlifting, equestrian, and archery are a few of the events featured in the exhibition.
Can be sized to specific space as frame sizes range from16x20 to 30x40.
Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA July 2005
Center for Digital Imaging Art, Waltham, MA March 2006
jazz
description: Photographs taken over the last 30 years of musicians like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Frank Sintatra Jr., and many more. All the photographs of the musicians are taken outside of the typical club scene, with intimacy that captures the true essence of these legends. In hotel rooms, on the street, backstage, and on old movie sets to name a view locations.
This is a living history of the original musical creation of the USA. Many of the luminaries are deceased, but through the exhibition viewers can share the passion of jazz that remains current.
Can be sized to specific space as frame sizes range from 20x26 to 30x40.
Jazz Week-Roxbury Community College, Roxbury, Ma April 2008
Huntington House Museum, Windsor, CT February 2004
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO May 2001
Insurance can be arranged