DAVID JARRETT, PHOTOGRAPHER
David Jarrett specializes in fine art (gallery work), travel and exterior architectural photography. His interest in photography started at the University of Colorado, where he was chief photographer on the Coloradan yearbook for three years. At that time he concentrated on available light candid photography, scenics and architectural images.
Upon graduation, Mr. Jarrett went into the investment business in New York and dropped photography until the early 1980s, when he began doing occasional magazine work for Our World, In Touch, Mandate, Blue Boy, HIM, Outing Travelogue, Playguy and other periodicals. Mr. Jarrett has had many images appear in Out (including the premier issue in 1992) and several of Sydney appeared in Genre.
Since 1990 Jarrett has devoted substantially more time to photography, with works exhibited in Provincetown, MA at Jones & Hobbs Gallery (1990), Stellwagen Gallery (1991), Gallery Matrix (two one-man exhibits, 1992 and 1993), and Icon Gallery (1996). In addition, in 1992 his images appeared in group shows in New York at both the Leslie/Lohman Gallery and Ganymede Gallery. In 1993 he exhibited several images at Puchong gallery and was represented at group shows at Leslie/Lohman in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2003 and 2008.
An illustrated article on Jarrett’s photography appeared in the spring 2008 Leslie/Lohman Gay art Foundation Archive quarterly journal entitled “Blink of An Eye: the Photographic Art of David Jarrett.” One of Jarrett's photographs was illustrated in Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, page 203.
Commercially, hundreds of his color images have been published worldwide -- in editorial and advertising -- marketed through Getty Images (formerly through Photonica). He was well represented in New York, the Great Metropolis, a large photo book on Manhattan; one full-page image of his appeared on the title sheet.
Mr. Jarrett is a volunteer at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery in New York and is co-chairman of the advisory committee. He has written numerous articles on artists for the Archive journal and many other periodicals.
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Select Publications
- David Jarrett, John Legrand John Legrand: Hell's Kitchen Artist 1916 - 2005, The ARCHIVE, LLGAF, No. 22, Winter 2007
- David Jarrett, Len Paoletti and His Art: Provincetown/Fort Lauderdale, The ARCHIVE, LLGAF, No. 17, Summer 2005
- David Jarrett, Of Special Note: Philip Osborne , The ARCHIVE, LLGAF, No. 12, Winter 2004
- David Jarrett, Adonis Art, London's Only Gay Art Gallery, The ARCHIVE, LLGAF, No. 11, Winter 2003
- David Jarrett, Robert Bliss Archive Donated to Leslie-Lohman , The ARCHIVE, LLGAF, No. 5: Spring 1998, Vol 4, Issue 1
- David Jarrett, An Important Painting by Phillip Osborne is Donated to the Foundation, The ARCHIVE, LLGAF, No. 4: Spring 1997, Vol. 3, Issue 1
- Stewart Hardman and David Jarrett, Principal Artists Exhibiting at Adonis Art, Part 3 The ARCHIVE, LLGAF,No. 12: 2004