Joy Bush
Joy Bush has decades of experience as a documentary and fine art photographer. Her photographs have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Connecticut Review, and many other publications. She is represented in the permanent collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, the Yale Medical Group Art Place in New Haven, Conn., and in many private collections. She also exhibits widely in solo and group shows throughout the Northeast.
Joy's black and white Pawtraits - Pet Portraits of Distinctions-grew out of her love for animals and her fascination with the Rembrandtesque black and white photography of Hollywood in the heyday of great studio portraiture, the 1930s and 1940s. Like those of George Hurrell, Robert Coburn, and others, Joy's photos capture the dramatic interplay of light and shadow-plane and contour. The result is an iconic image of powerful simplicity, that reveals the mystery, star quality, and soulfulness we all see in the faces of our companion animals.
A photo session costs $600 and includes the session, which takes between one and two hours, contact sheets, and two final photographs, approximately 8x10 in size printed on 11x14 archival paper.