Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
American, b. 1971
Jeanine Michna-Bales is a fine artist working in the medium of photography. Her work explores our fundamentally important relationships – to the land, to other people and to oneself – and how they impact contemporary society. Her work lives at the intersection of curiosity and knowledge, documentary and fine art, past and present, anthropology and sociology, and environmentalism and activism. Her practice is based on in-depth research – taking into account different viewpoints, causes and effects, political climates – and she often incorporates primary source material into her projects.
Michna-Bales’s work is in many permanent collections including Archive of Documentary Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Louisiana State University, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, LA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX; and University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
Her work has been featured in numerous publications and online blogs, including BBC World News, CityLab from The Atlantic, Dallas Morning News, DCist.com, Feature Shoot, Geo Historie, Hyperallergic, In Sight by The Washington Post, In the In-Between, Los Angeles Times, Lenscratch, Musée Magazine, NBC4 Washington D.C., New York Times Lens Blog, Orion Magazine, O The Oprah Magazine, Oxford American Eyes on the South, pdn Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Spot Magazine, Transition from Harvard University, UK Daily Mail, Virginia Quarterly Review, WABE 90.1 Atlanta’s NPR Station, WCPN-NPR and WVIZ-PBS ideastream Cleveland, Wired Raw File, Zoom Magazine, among others.
Including other honors, her work was selected for the 2016 Documentarian of The American South Collection Award from the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University. She was awarded the top Portfolio Review Prize at PhotoNOLA 2015, resulting in a solo show at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery during PhotoNOLA 2016. Michna-Bales was named to the Critical Mass Top 50 in 2014 and in 2017.
She conceives and presents her projects in a way that spark curiosity about a given subject and encourage discourse among audiences of all backgrounds. Whether exploring the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad in Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad (2002 - 2016), a campaign trail for women’s votes in Standing Together: Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign for Women’s Suffrage (2016 - 2020), long-forgotten nuclear fallout shelters in Fallout: A Look Back at the Height of the Cold War in America, circa 1960 (2013 - present), or the invisible epicenters of environmental turmoil through the project Terra Fractura: A Visual Survey of Manmade Earthquakes (2015 - present), her work seeks out places that are hidden in plain sight.(Biography provided by PDNB Gallery)
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Artist: Jeanine Michna-Bales
The River Jordan by Jeanine Michna-Bales, 2014, Digital C-Print, Panorama
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
The River Jordan. First view of a free state, crossing the Ohio River to Indiana by Jeanine Michna-Bales is a panoramic photograph of a river taken at night. This photograph is from ...
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The River Jordan. First view of a free state, crossing the Ohio River to Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
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Image size: 17 x 70.75 inches, Paper size: 21 x 74.75 inches
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
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Amber Waves of Grain, Montana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
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Image size: 44 x 66 in.
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered.
Series: Standing Together: Photographs of Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign For Woman’s Suffrage
Frame NOT included.
In 1916, Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886–1916) embarked on a grueling campaign across the Western US on behalf of the National Women’s Party appealing for women’s suffrage ahead of the 1916 presidential election. Standing Together, by artist Jeanine Michna-Bales (born 1971), retraces Milholland’s journey. The 30-year-old suffragist delivered some 50 speeches to standing-room-only crowds in eight states in 21 days: Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, Nevada and California. She battled chronic illness and lack of sleep during her travels and died a month after her last speech in Los Angeles, where her final public words were, “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
Through her photographs, combining dramatic landscapes and historical reenactments of important vignettes of Milholland on her journey with archival materials, Michna-Bales captures a glimpse of the monumental effort required to pass the 19th Amendment...
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2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Mirrored Worlds, Big Cypress Swamp, Florida
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Archival pigment print
Paper size: 30 x 41 in., Image: 25 x 36 in.
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Series: The Four Moments of the Sun: Hidd...
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2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Blue Gem, Washington
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Ed of 3
Archival pigment print
Image size: 44 x 66 in.
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered.
Series: Standing Together: Photographs of Inez Milholland’s Final Campaign For Woman’s Suf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Over the Hills. North Trimble County, Kentucky
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Series: Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Leaving Helena, Montana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 24 x 36 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women...
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2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Railroad Trestle Bridge, Montana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 3
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 32 x 40 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Leaving the Valley, Idaho
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 24 x 36 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women's Suffrage
In 1916, Inez Milholland Boissevain (1886–1916) embarked on a grueling campaign across the Western US on behalf of the National Women’s Party appealing for women’s suffrage ahead of the 1916 presidential election. Standing Together, by artist Jeanine Michna-Bales (born 1971), retraces Milholland’s journey. The 30-year-old suffragist delivered some 50 speeches to standing-room-only crowds in eight states in 21 days: Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah, Nevada and California. She battled chronic illness and lack of sleep during her travels and died a month after her last speech in Los Angeles, where her final public words were, “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
Through her photographs, combining dramatic landscapes and historical reenactments of important vignettes of Milholland on her journey with archival materials, Michna-Bales captures a glimpse of the monumental effort required to pass the 19th Amendment.
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mountain Pass in Fog, Oregon
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 24 x 36 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wading Prior to Blackness. Grant Parish, Louisiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 9
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Digital C-print
Paper size: 21 x 28.5 in., Image size: 17 x 24.5 in.
From the series, Through Darkness to Light...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Moonrise, Virginia City, Nevada
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 3
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 32 x 40 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Storm is Building, Odgen, Utah
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 3
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 32 x 40 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Special Flying Envoys, Montana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 3
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 32 x 40 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Back to the City. Leaving Phoebe Hearst’s Estate, Pleasanton, California
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 3
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Archival pigment print
Image size: 32 x 40 in.
From series, Standing Together: Inez Milholland's Final Campaign for Women...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Circle of Souls, Everglades, Florida
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered.
Series: The Four Moments of the Sun: Hidden Lands of Florida’s Maroon Communities
AVAILABLE SIZES:
Limited to a single edition of ...
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2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
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Archival Pigment
Twisted Thicket. Lawrence County, Tennessee
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Series: Through Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Taking Cover with the Fireflies. North of Winchester, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Series: Through Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad
Framed.
Michna-Bale...
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2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
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Digital
Look for the Gray Barn Out Back by Jeanine Michna-Bales, 2013
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Full title: Look for the Gray Barn Out Back. Joshua Eliason Jr. barnyards and farmhouse, with a tunnel leading underneath the road to another station. Centerville, Indiana
Edition of 8
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Ready to install
Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred, or is occurring, in a society and how people react to those events. She meticulously researches each topic — considering different viewpoints, causes and effects, and political climates — and often incorporates found or archival text and audio into her projects.
Whether exploring the darkened stations along the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Moonlight Over the Mississippi, Tensas, Parish, LA
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 25 x 36 in.
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Dye-sublimation print on Aluminum, wall mount on back.
From the series, Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital
Eagle Hollow from Hunter’s Bottom. Just across the Ohio River, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Digital c-print, 25 x 36 in.
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Portfolio
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15 + 3 APs
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Portfolio box: 13 1/4 x 16 3/4 x 2 1/8 in.
A limited edition portfolio was published by Jeanine Michna-Bales in the spring of 2018. The numbered books (1-15 + 3ap) along with twelve images selected by the artist are enclosed in a hand-crafted box. The images are interleaved with vellum sheets that have quotations from those who played an integral part in the Underground Railroad...
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2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Mixed Media, Digital Pigment
Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jefferson County, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred, or is occurring, in a society and how people react to those...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Keep Going. Crossing the Tennessee River, Colbert County, Alabama
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered.
Michna-Bales’ work explores the relationships between what has occurred, or is occurring, in a society and how people react to those...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
A Brief Respite. Abolitionist William Beard’s house, Union County, Indiana
By Jeanine Michna-Bales
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by Jeanine Michna-Bales
Digital C-print
Paper size: 30 x 41 in., Image size: 25 x 36 in.
From the series, Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Jeanine Michna-Bales Color Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
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