Williams, Jennette

Documentary photographer and instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Fourth recipient of the biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography in 2009.

From the description of Jennette Williams photographs, 2000-2006. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 535176250

Jennette Williams is a documentary photographer and an instructor in fine arts photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work, The Bathers, was selected as the 2008 winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, and was published as a book by Duke University Press in 2009.

Williams is originally from New York, and has a master's degree from Yale University. She has previously been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, a Golden Light Award, and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She began photographing women exercising in swimming pools in Manhattan, and gradually expanded her project to focus on women bathers worldwide.

From the guide to the Jennette Williams Photographs, 2000-2006, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)