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Bill Jacobsen
New Year's Day #4580, 2002
Chromogenic print mounted on archival board
21.5 x 19.5 inches; mounted: 29.5 x 27.5 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Julie Saul Gallery, New York

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Bill Jacobson's work was seen at The Aldrich in Solitude and Focus: Recent Work by MacDowell Colony Fellows in the Visual Arts in 2005.

He is well known for a body of work that negates (through the application of a defusing lens) the specificity of photographic vision in favor of an immateriality of light and form. In the past his black and white pictures of isolated subjects suggested actions, moods, even narratives that were ethereal, haunting, and momentary. If his photographs were likened to poetry, Jacobson would be a symbolist rather than a realist.

Bill Jacobson was born in 1955 in Norwich, Connecticut. He earned a BFA in Art and American Studies from Brown University (1977) and an MFA in photography from San Francisco Art Institute (1981). Since 1980 he has exhibited extensively in both group and one-person shows. His work is included in such public and museum collections as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; New York Public Library; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.