Mimi Plumb

Mimi Plumb (born December 1953),[1] also known as Mimi Plumb-Chambers, is an American photographer and educator, living in Berkeley, California.[2] Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged documentary photographers concerned with California.[3] She has published three books, Landfall (2018),[4] The White Sky (2020),[5][6] and The Golden City (2021).[7]

In 2015, she received a California Humanities Grant, alongside writer and historian Miriam Pawel, to develop a history exhibit featuring stories of California farmworkers organizing to cast secret ballots for the union of their choice.[8] In 2017, Plumb received a John Gutmann Photography Fellowship for her project Teen Girls.[9] In 2022, Plumb received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography for a project exploring the impact of climate change in California.[10]

Plumb's work is held in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[2] Daum Museum of Contemporary Art,[11] Yale University Art Gallery,[12] the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[13] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),[14] Pier 24 Photography,[15] and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.[16]

  1. ^ https://kochgallery.com/artists/mimi- plumb/
  2. ^ a b "Plumb, Mimi". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  3. ^ "Mimi Plumb captures the beauty of growing up in 1970s suburban California". 13 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Unearthed". The California Sunday Magazine. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  5. ^ "Mimi Plumb's documentation of seventies suburban California". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  6. ^ "Coming of age in a 1970s California suburb". Huck Magazine. 1 October 2020. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  7. ^ "Mimi Plumb".
  8. ^ "The Art of Storytelling Continues with Mimi Plumb". 27 September 2017.
  9. ^ "2017 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Recipients". 16 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Mimi Plumb - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  11. ^ "Online Collections | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art".
  12. ^ "Richard at the Palace, from Men and Women series". artgallery.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  13. ^ "Results – Advanced Search Objects – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston".
  14. ^ "Site | LACMA Collections".
  15. ^ "Plumb, Mimi".
  16. ^ "Female Perspectives from Vivian Maier to Barbara Klemm". www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org.