Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Stanforth, Melvin |
Other names |
Mel Stanforth; Melvin Sidney Stanforth |
Dates & places of birth and death |
B. 1937 D. November 2018, Greenville, North Carolina |
Nationality |
American |
Notes |
Stanforth believes that the aim of the image making process within the digital world of Photoshop is to make the image similar to a painting, and close to, but not identical to serigraph and lithography. In other words, to have softer edges pages available via tonal modulation of photography. Much of Stanforth’s imagery evolves from the nearby landscape of Greensville, North Carolina. He sees these natural forms as “beautiful writing [akin to] calligraphy”. Standforth explains that he is “ always seeing presences out there, this region is rich in old ghosts, sunken shops, uniqueness of marine woods and vegetation that easily is a world of absolute ceaseless transformation of objects; namely the spaces that are both this and that, then and now, filled with sun light, hidden in shadow.” |
Relationships |
Mary Anna Box (wife) |
Places of residence |
Greenville, North Carolina; Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
Role |
Artist |
Titles & Honors |
Professor Emeritus at East Carolina University (worked there for over 30 years) |
Education |
BFA from the University of Alabama MFA from Wayne State University |
