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J. B. Jackson, Cultural Geographer
J. B. Jackson, Cultural Geographer
J. B. Jackson, Cultural Geographer

J. B. Jackson, Cultural Geographer

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1983
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 16 × 11 1/4 in. (40.6 × 28.6 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 23 7/8 × 20 in. (60.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Anne Noggle from the New Mexico Photographic Survey Project, 1981-1984, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1985
Object number1985.114.3
DescriptionA three-quarter length portrait of a bald, middle aged man standing in the interior space of a room. He stands in a relaxed pose with his thumbs tucked into his front pockets. The man wears a leather jackets, a boldly patterned button down shirt and jeans.
Text Entries
John Brinckerhoff Jackson, (1909-1996), was an innovative interpreter of the American cultural landscape. He retired to La Cienega, near Santa Fe and wrote essays for the museum's catalog The Essential Landscape, published in 1985, in which this portrait of him appears.
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