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Matinee: Pam Fox
29 April 2023
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 498th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Pam Fox.
In this 5:08 video, fine arts professor and photographer Pam Fox tells us about taking a sabbatical in Paris where she got lost in the flea markets, collecting all sorts of things.
Fox is a professor of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney College. She earned her BFA and MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Communications Arts and Photography respectively.
The recipient of two Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship Grants, two Virginia Museum Fellowships and the Theresa Pollack Prize in Photography, her work is represented in many corporate and museum collections, including the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
She had a plan for how to spend her time in the city of light but it wasn't until the end of her stay that she discovered a piece of fabric that captured her imagination. She brought it back to her studio and accidentally found a still life arrangement that pleased her.
Accident is the mother of invention.
As she talks about the images she shot in Paris, we see her working in her studio, inspired by her Parisian experience. She has a garden at home where she grows models, let's just say.
She pulls them up by their roots and brings them into the studio, puts some jazz on and then, she says, "I just go into my flow."
It's a joyous toying with the botanical on several levels before she's done. And you hardly want her to stop.