LIGHT ON IOWA, A CONVERSATION WITH PHOTOGRAPHER NANCY REXROTH, DEBUTS AT EVENT HOSTED BY CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM

Cincinnati Filmmaker Ann Segal’s Tenth Film in the Series ‘Conversations with Photographers’ 

CINCINNATI, OH – March 24, 2021– Ann Segal, a Cincinnati-based photographer and filmmaker has created a film featuring an intimate conversation with photographer Nancy Rexroth, revealing how spending summers in the Midwest informed her artistic vision and her unique perceptions about photography.  The film, Light on IOWA will be shown for the first time locally as a free virtual event hosted by the Cincinnati Art Museum on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 8pm. 

Photographer Nancy Rexroth’s best-known body of work, IOWA, is considered groundbreaking for the emotional depth and dreamlike sense of motion Rexroth achieved using unconventional photographic tools and techniques.  IOWA was photographed with a Diana camera, an inexpensive, plastic-bodied film camera originally marketed as a novelty in the 1960s. “When the Cincinnati Art Museum announced a major, ongoing acquisition of Rexroth’s work in 2019, I was intrigued by Rexroth’s poetic expression and the thought-provoking nature of her imagery”, noted Ann Segal, a photographer herself.

The Cincinnati Art Museum’s Curator of Photography, Nathaniel M. Stein, will preface the film with brief remarks on Rexroth and her work, and on the formation of The Nancy Rexroth Collection.

            Light on IOWA is the tenth film in the series Conversations with Photographers, produced by Ann Segal, with support from FotoFocus since 2014. Videography by Scott Ginn, editing by Scott Ginn and Ann Segal. The virtual screening of Light on IOWA on Thursday, April 8 at 8pm is free, however RSVP is required at  www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/Rexroth. 

About Ann Segal

As a photographer & filmmaker for over forty years, Ann Segal’s work is informed by her life, a decades long practice of yoga and tai chi, a deep connection to the natural world and a curiosity about the creative process. She seeks to reimagine stories from the collective memory so that the viewer might reconnect with their own interior landscapes and memories. View Ann’s work at http://www.annsegal.com or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/annsegal/.

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