Deanna Templeton Explained

Deanna Templeton
Birth Date:19 July 1969
Birth Place:Huntington Beach, California
Nationality:American
Field:Photographer
Spouse:Ed Templeton (m. 1991)

Deanna Templeton (born July 19, 1969 in Huntington Beach, California) is an American artist working primarily in photography.[1] [2] She lives and works in Huntington Beach.[3] [4]

Early life

Deanna Templeton was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. As a teenager, she discovered and was inspired by punk rock.[2]

Deanna met Ed Templeton at a Red Hot Chili Peppers concert when he was 15 and she was 18. She recalls, "[h]e looked older and I looked younger so we met somewhere in the middle."[2] Two weeks later, they went on a date, and two weeks after that, they were girlfriend and boyfriend.[5] The two were married three years later in 1991.[6] They both became vegetarian in 1990, vegan in 1991, and have not consumed meat or dairy products since.[7]

Art career

Templeton started to pursue photography at the age of 15 when her mother gifted her a camera.[2] She used the camera to explore and document the local Los Angeles punk scene.[1]

Early in her photography career, Templeton traveled with her husband and other professional skateboarders on their international tours, documenting the scene. Templeton's photographs from that period embody a unique perspective of skateboarding and skateboard culture because they reflect a female perspective of a sport which, at the time, was documented and dominated by men.[2] In 2007, she published the book Your Logo Here; the photographs capture young girls offering their bodies to their skateboard idols for them to sign and for skate companies to "brand" with spray paint templates.[2] [8] Photographs from Your Logo Here culminated in an exhibition titled Scratch My Name On Your Arm, which traveled throughout Europe in 2009; drawing inspiration from the punk scene that inspired her as a teenager, Templeton appropriated her exhibition's title from a Smith's song.

She continued to explore the body with her 2016 book Swimming Pool, in which she photographed her friends who were invited to skinny dip in her pool; she documented these scenes over eight years in both color and black-and-white photographs.[9]

For around 20 years, Templeton made street portraits of young women that she collected in the book What She Said (2021). The portraits are contrasted with journal entries from her own adolescence in the 1980s.[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

Publications

Photography books by Templeton

Publications with contributions by Templeton

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ed and deanna templeton are the godparents of zine culture. Paige. Silveria. February 10, 2015.
  2. Web site: Deanna Templeton: Scratch Her Name on Your Arm. September 24, 2009. Dazed.
  3. Web site: Keeping it Real with Deanna Templeton. March 28, 2016.
  4. Web site: This Is What Real California Girls Look Like. Maya. Singer. Vogue. March 8, 2017 .
  5. Beautiful Losers, Film, Directed by Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard, March 1, 2008.
  6. Web site: Ed & Deanna Templeton. ZEIT Online and FvF Productions UG. FvF Publishing. January 22, 2013. Lindsay Charlwood. Fette Sans. January 8, 2012.
  7. Web site: May 3, 2018. Ed Templeton Interview pt. 2. February 1, 2013. Kerry . Weber. Veganskateblog.com. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20130207234012/http://veganskateblog.com/interview/ed-templeton-interview-pt-2. February 7, 2013.
  8. Web site: Vice Pictures - Your Logo Here (and Here, And Here, And Here). www.vice.com. August 2007 .
  9. Web site: AI-AP | Pro Photo Daily » Spotlight: Eight Years of Skinny Dipping by Deanna Templeton. www.ai-ap.com.
  10. News: Sean. O'Hagan. 2021-02-15. Photographer Deanna Templeton: 'Everything gets mixed up when you're a teenager'. The Guardian. 17 January 2021. 0261-3077.
  11. Web site: AnOther. 2021-02-15. Deanna Templeton's Profound Documentation of Life as a Teenage Girl. 22 January 2021. AnOther.
  12. Web site: 2021-02-15. Portfolio: What She Said, Deanna Templeton. HeraldScotland. February 13, 2021 .
  13. Web site: Oliver. Lunn. 2021-02-15. Deanna Templeton's timeless photographs of girlhood. 19 January 2021. i-D.
  14. Web site: 2021-02-15. Deanna Templeton's book captures the relatability of young women's angst. 5 February 2021.
  15. Web site: art-agenda. art-agenda.com. 4 August 2019.
  16. Web site: Artist Pairs Her Own Teen Diary Entries With Photos Of Girls Around The World. Priscilla. Frank. June 15, 2016. HuffPost.
  17. Web site: Datebook: Portraits of adolescents, retyping famous books, an L.A. painter at 90. June 25, 2016. Los Angeles Times.
  18. Web site: Deanna & Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium | UMOCA. www.utahmoca.org.
  19. Web site: Pier 24 Offers a Dark Look at America's Past Decade in 'This Land'. KQED. Sarah. Hotchkiss. July 5, 2018. May 28, 2019.
  20. Web site: 2021-02-15. Book Review: What She Said by Deanna Templeton. Musée Magazine. February 4, 2021 .

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