Judy Dater Self - Portrait with Stone Badlands South Dakota - Photograph 1981 Judy Dater (American, 1941-). Original Silver Gelatin Photograph, signed on Verso with title "Self-Portrait with Stone", "Judy Dater 1981". Silver aluminum frame with new acid free mat and non-glare plexi-glass. One of americ's iconic photographers whose work is in Museums and collections. The artist's works range $1500-$12,000 Living most of her life in California, Judy Dater (b. 1941) grew up in Hollywood with the influence of cinema amplified by the hours she spent in her father’s movie theater. This early exposure to the realm of the visual led her to study art at the University of California, Los Angeles and later San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she earned her degrees (BA 1963, MA 1966). At SFSU, Dater committed more seriously to photography and her early talent was encouraged by several prominent members from the West Coast’s Group f.64 and its followers, including Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston. Though the theme of feminism remains present in Dater’s work through the decades, her compositions increase in narrative depth and implication over time. Her self-portraits incorporating the landscape of the Southwest use geographic features as subtle allusions that reveal the weight of social constructs.