Jeffrey Silverthorne : Working

For forty-five years, Jeffrey Silverthorne has been working steadily on an extensive body of work. With a background in the fine arts and the American photographic tradition, Silverthorne developed a photographic oeuvre that moves and balances between personal experiences, public spaces of presentation, and staged scenes.

His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; George Eastman House, Rochester; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

This book not only shows an overview of the artist's diverse visual languages, but also a wide range of unseen series.

Over the past forty years American photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne (born 1946 in Honolulu, Hawaii),has been accumulating series on extreme subjects: a slaughter house, a morgue, brothels or a community of transvestites and transexuals.
Silverthorne's was work included in over 35 one-person exhibitions, 40 group exhibitions, 36 publications including 3 monographs.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum; Yale University Art Gallery; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; RISD Museum, Providence; Museum for Photography, Antwerp; State Gallery of the Czech Republic; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Musee de l’Elysee Lausanne Switzerland; Lars Swander, Copenhagen; Christian Caujolle, Paris and other collections.

François Cheval is chief curator of the photography museum Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France.

Joachim Naudts is curator & editor of photography and contemporary art,
based in Ghent, Belgium.