Joan Gentry

Joan Gentry (born 1937) earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Mexico in 1976 where she studied with Beaumont Newhall, Tom Barrow, and Anne Noggle. Gentry’s photography included a street photography project in Albuquerque and Santa Fe as well as documenting the surrounding towns such as Madrid, Golden, and the landscape of Northern New Mexico. She has also completed series work on the Getty Museum and other architectural subjects in Los Angeles, Albuquerque and Santa Fe. More recently she has photographed extensively in the Ancestral Pueblo areas of Southern Utah with her husband, the photographer Don Kirby (also gifting artwork to the DAI. Nazraeli Press published The Anasazi Project in 2012. Sher works are included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, the New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon, and the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida.