Antmann, Fran
American, b. 1947 New York City
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BiographyFran Antmann is a documentary photographer, writer, and professor. Originally a painter, she turned to photography in graduate school, receiving a doctorate in Fine Arts from New York University. Working mostly in black and white, she has focused on the lives and culture of the Indigenous people of Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, the Dene First Nation people of the Western Canadian Arctic, and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received numerous grants and awards, and her book Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams, was published by Nirala Press in 2017. Solo exhibitions have been held at the National Museum of Art, Copenhagen; Museum for Forokunst, Odense, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York City; Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia, Insituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico; and Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Peru, among others. Her work is represented in the collections of the International Center of Photography, New York City; Brooklyn Museum; Haverford College Collection, Comfort Gallery, Haverford, PA; and the Museum of Photographic Arts, Odense, Denmark. Antmann has taught photography at Baruch College, CUNY.