Ed Bowes | |
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 Ed Bowes on his NYC rooftop, 1979. Photograph by Elizabeth Cannon. | |
| Born | Edward Francis Xavier Bowes December 7, 1944 St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | New School for Social Research, New York, NY |
| Known for | Filmmaking, video, screenwriting directing, editing |
| Movement | Video Art |
| Spouse | Anne Waldman |
| Awards | Artist-in-residence, Television Laboratory, WNET/Thirteen, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts New York Council on the Arts Jerome Foundation Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Artist-Teacher Award, SVA |
| Website | https://www.edbowes.com/ |
Ed Bowes is a filmmaker, writer, and director who pioneered the use of video as cinema. The first person to make a feature-length film in video, he used poets, musicians, artists, video- and filmmakers as performers in films such as Romance (1975) and Better, Stronger (1978–79). As a result of the notice given to his camera work, Bowes began his long career as a cinematographer for filmmakers and video artists including Kathryn Bigelow, Lizzie Borden, Vito Acconci, and Robert Longo, among others. In the 1970s, he was instrumental in creating early exhibitions of video art at MoMA, The Kitchen, and other Downtown New York venues. He taught advanced filmmaking for more than three decades at the School of Visual Arts, where he influenced several generations of contemporary filmmakers. His work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York,[1] and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.[2] It is also represented in The Kitchen Archive at The Getty Research Institute[3] and the Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive.[4]
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- ^ "Getty Research Institute". primo.getty.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-10.
- ^ "Long Beach Museum of Art Video Archive". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2023-06-19.