John R. Pepper

John Randolph Pepper born 1958 is a photographer and theatre director Pepper was born in Rome Italy in 1958 to Curtis Bill Pepper a war correspondent and the head of the Rome bureau for Newsweek magazine and the sculptor Beverly Pepper He has one sister poet Jorie Graham He was raised in Rome Italy He studied History of Art at Princeton University 1976 where he was also one of the original painting members of the 185 Nassau Street Painting Program and was awarded the Whitney Painting Fellowship in 1975 In 1981 Pepper was admitted as a Directing Fellow to The American Film Institute Los Angeles Pepper began his career as an apprentice to Ugo Mulas who gave him his first formal training in the art of street photography Pepper pursued his work in photography analog for three decades while simultaneously directing in the theatre and in film His show Rome 1969 An Hommage to Italian NeoRealist Cinema USAFrance 2008 lead him back to his native Italy where Lanterna Magica Edizioni published the book Sans Papier Italy 2011 with subsequent exhibitions in Rome Venice Saint Petersburg Russia Paris Palermo Sicily In 2012 the Manège Museum in Saint Petersburg Russia showed Peppers new work which the Istituto Superiore Per la Storia della Fotografia Italy published as a new book of photographs in 2014 called Evaporations that previews at the Officina delle Zattere in Venice Italy In 2015 the Italian Institute of Culture and the Russia Federation Ministry of Culture sponsored a traveling exhibition that opened at the Rosphoto Photography Museum Saint Petersburg Russia In March 2015 Pepper had a retrospective exhibit at the Showcase Gallery in Dubai United Arab Emirates The Italian Institute of Culture and The United States Mission in Russia sponsored a travelling exhibition 20152016 of Evaporations throughout Siberia Russia Vladivostok Irkutsk Novosibirsk Omsk Yekaterinburg Samara and Moscow From November 2016 to January 2017 Peppers Evaporations ????????? was shown in Rome Italy at Fondazione Terzo Pilastro e Meditteraneos Museo Palazzo Cipolla The monumental exhibit consisted of 52 works ranging from 120 x160cm to 3m x 5m Source Article John Randolph Pepper from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30