Caryatid

by Angela N. Hunt

Angela N. Hunt's first book of fine art Black & White photography, Caryatid covers some of her early B&W work to the present day, most with a single repeating model, Mrs. Hunt's muse, Heidi Kobara. It covers a wide range of moods and styles from the fantastic surreal to the gothic dark.

120 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

Trite as it is to start this way, but I was born in Livermore, CA, five miles outside the fence of the Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory, where my father was a Physicist Technician under
Dr. Richard Feynman. Yeah. That Dr. Feynman.

I was an only child growing up, but I didn't stay that way. When I got older, I both discovered and aqcuired two sisters, but I'm still the youngest. Don't ask me how I managed that.

Physicist though he was, my father was also a photographer and a poet. I had to laugh at him when he wondered why I ended up as a creative and not as a physicist, when my earliest memories are of going through all the slides he took when he was in Korea.

I wrote my first story when I was 5 and it was about a telepathic horse and her girl.

My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic that I stole from my mother's desk drawer when I was 12. I bought my first Pentax K1000 when I was 14 and haven't looked back since.

At 15, I began painting.

I've picked up arts the way some people pick up bad habits, and for much the same reason: the deep satisfaction of them.

I haven't gone to school for any of it. They're just in me. I've learned technique from other professionals and other creatives, wherever I can find it, hell, off the graffitti I see in downtown LA.

Tell me your secrets.