Martha Casanave has been an exhibiting and working photographer for over thirty-five years. She has taught many workshops and master classes in the U.S. and abroad. Since 1992, she has regularly taught photography at Monterey Peninsula College and at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. She was awarded the Imogen Cunningham Photography Award (1979), and also was a 1989 recipient of the Koret Israel Prize. Her book Past Lives, Photographs by Martha Casanave was published by Godine in 1991. Her second book, Beware of Dog, was released by the Center for Photographic Art in 2002. Her most recent book of pinhole photographs, Explorations Along an Imaginary Coastline, was released by Hudson Hills Press in 2006. Casanave’s photographs are included in many major collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Stanford Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Museum of Photographic History in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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