Jim Stone studied engineering at MIT, and it was during his days at the institution that he turned to photography. His art has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally, and is collected by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among many others. He has published six books which are in wide circulation, these include A Short Course in Photography A User’s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, Photography and Photography, A Short Course in Digital Photography, the Essential Way. They are in wide circulation and continued use for courses at the university level. There have been 3 books by artists published of his photographs, Historiostomy, Stranger Than Fiction, and Why My Pictures are Good. Stone was the editor of Newsletter for Photographic Education by Polaroid.
He has received awards from The New England Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and The San Francisco Foundation. Stone taught formerly at Boston College and the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, Stone is Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico. He’s an exhibiting artist who uses photography as his medium. His work is represented in the permanent collections of major museums. Stone has held numerous group and solo exhibitions with much success, and in these exhibitions his art has been the center of attraction. His art are great for both inspirational and decorative purposes and that’s why collectors stock them in large numbers.
