Quizzical Eye
The Photography of Rondal Partridge
Quizzical Eye collects a lifetime of work by eighty-five-year-old photographer Rondal Partridge–son of the renowned photographer Imogen Cunningham, apprentice to Dorothea Lange, and protege of Ansel Adams. Intimately associated with the great photographers of his time, Partridge has absorbed all the techniques his famous teachers could give him, yet he wears this professional lineage lightly, dedicating himself to following the paths where his own strange genius leads him.
Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal Partridge is filled with breathtakingly intimate portraits, devastating environmental statements, compositional wonders, and telling moments from six decades of American history — the essential works of a man who has dedicated his long life to capturing single moments on film.
”Partridge is one of those rare ones who will not be dragged into an ordinary adulthood, and that has made all the difference in his life and in his work. I tip my hat to his extraordinary pictures!” —Wayne Thiebaud, artist
”Visceral, longing, suggestive, disbelieving, paradoxical, and transcendent.” —Stacy Blix, Rain Taxi Review of Books
”His passion for photography is unique and incandescent.” —Daniel Dixon, son of Dorothea Lange