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WILD LIVES
Troy photographer Donald M. Jones will host tours of his photography exhibit at the Hockaday Museum on Jan. 7
BY MOLLY PRIDDY OF THE BEACON
One of Montana’s most proli c and published photographers will head up an entire day of discus- sions and stories about his work at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell.
Donald M. Jones, who lives in Troy, is known nationally and internationally pri- marily for his work shooting photographs of wildlife, particularly the creatures inhabit- ing North America.
Jones has tallied more than 600 magazine covers as part of his legacy, along with clients like Field and Stream magazine, Time, Out- door Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Columbia Sportswear, L.L. Bean, and more.
And now, his photographs have a new life at the Hockaday Museum of Art, where 27 of them are on display in the exhibit, “Wild and Free: Photographs of North American Wild- life,” until Jan. 21.
The Hockaday has planned an entire day of Jones leading tours around his exhibit, on Jan. 7.
Barry Conger, the interim executive director at the Hockaday, said the exhibit is a chance for a well-known photographer to ex his creative muscles a bit more than tra- ditional editorial images allow.
“Most of his work is photojournalism related, so he tends to shoot the kinds of shots that Field and Stream might want to grab,” Conger said. “When we asked him to do this exhibit, he was excited. He said he was trying to focus more on what would be artis- tic pieces for him.”
The resulting exhibit is a striking collec- tion of photographs of animals most of us will never see up close, usually for safety reasons (grizzly bears are a favorite subject in Jones’ work). The photographs are “huge” when compared to regular photos or even computer screens, Conger said, with most of them coming in at 4-feet-by-5-feet.
“They’re absolutely compelling,” Conger said. “They get your attention.”
All the photographs are also canvas
Bighorn sheep. DONALD M. JONES
American bison. DONALD M. JONES
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