An antiques dealer and freelance writer for over thirty years, Ginny first began using a camera to take photographs to go with articles that she wrote and for ads of items for sale. Over time she lost interest in the practical side of photography and became interested in creative image making using a camera and digital equipment. Since 2003 she has been creating images that are photographic in style but are created without a camera. These images are called scanograms. The images that she creates are real representations of objects that appear to be doing impossible things.
Currently Ginny teaches a class at the Lancaster County Art Association (LCAA) called “The Online Artist” in which she teaches artists how the internet can benefit them as artists.
Ginny is a Past President of the Art Association. She is the Association's Publicity Chairperson and designs and maintains their website at lcaaonline.org.
At her studio in Lancaster, where she is found rarely, she offers a selection of sadly remaindered but nicely discounted Fine Art Photography Books. The books range from monographs to history to novels to essays. For a partial list of titles in stock, click here. In 2008 she plans to begin offering the books for sale online through her ebay store: Imajgin Antiques Photography Books.
Ginny and her husband, Jim Maxwell, deal in antiques including vintage photography such as 19th century CDVs (carte de visites), daguerreotypes, vernacular photography, and other kinds of photography in different processes.
If interested in purchasing a photograph that you've seen on the site, please inquire by email or call on the phone at (717) 464-5572.
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About photographing the Amish:
Contrary to many popular conceptions, there are books, newspaper articles, TV programs, and movies which include images of the Amish. However, the Amish and members of several Old Order groups are not supposed to pose for pictures once they have officially joined the church. This puts them in an awkward position when people ask them to pose for the camera. They can be in pictures but they cannot pose. It is a sort of Catch 22.
The reason that they don't pose for pictures is that having photographs of oneself is considered vain and puts attention on the individual rather than the group. The group is of the highest priority in Amish life.
They don't officially join the church until they are in their late teens or early twenties. Before they join the church, they may pose for pictures without being in violaton of the rules.
If interested in reading more on the issue of Amish and photography, there is an interesting article at this link: The Amish and Photographs written by Brad Igou and published in 2001 in Amish Country News.
Selected Juried Exhibits and Awards
2008
• The Michael Engle Award, Lancaster County Art Association's most prestigious award. Presented May 1, 2008 in Recognition of Exceptional Distinguished Service to the Lancaster County Art Association.
2007
• First Place in Photography as Fine Art II, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, Juror: Tom Beck, May 17 to September 9. • Women's Expressions 2007 Exhibit, invitational exhibit of the work of women artists, Lancaster Women & Babies Hospital, Lancaster, PA, April 1–21. • The Selective Eye: exhibit of the work of 11 Lancaster County photographers at the Rothman Gallery, Phillips Museum of Art, F&M College, Lancaster, PA, March 8–April 15.
2006
• Women Artists Invitational Exhibit, York Art Association, November 5–26.
• Night Gallery II Exhibit: “Creepy Creatures” Award, Lancaster County Art Association, October 28
• First Place in the Photography Category, Lancaster County Art Association's Annual Juried Exhibit, Juror: Richard Rosenfeld, June 11-July 22.
• Honorable Mention, York Art Association Spring Membership Show
• First Place, The Garden Show, a membership show at the Lancaster County Art Association, Feb. 19-March 25.
2005
• Photography Exhibition, 5 Photographers, Art Association of Harrisburg, Oct. 22-Nov. 23
• Alternative Visions, Alternative Processes, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland, June 1 to September 9.
• Women’s Expressions Art Exhibit, Women & Babies Hospital, Lancaster, PA, March 28-April 15.
• The Shapes of Nature & Nurture, Two Person Exhibit, Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University, January 6-30.
2004
•First Place, Lancaster County Art Association Members Show, Oct. 3-Nov. 6
•First Place Photography, York Art Association Juried Show, Oct. 3-Nov. 6
•Fruits of My Flatbed Garden. Lancaster County Art Association, March 28-April 24, Strasburg, PA
• 12th Annual Phillips Mill Photographic Exhibit, May 16-June 6, 2004
• Photography 23, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ. Jan. 31-Feb. 29. Juror: Ruth Thorne-Thomson.
2003
• Philadelphia Sketch Club Photography 2003, Oct. 26-Nov. 15.
• First and Third Place Photography Juried All Media Show York Art Assocation, Oct.-Nov.
• Best in Show, Fancy Footwork, Art Association of Harrisburg Membership Show Sept. - Oct.
•13th Annual New Images Exhibition: A Juried Photo Competition for the Mid-Atlantic States. James Madison University New Image Gallery. Sept. 5-Oct. 21. Juror: Peter Plagens.
• First Place in Photography, Lancaster County Art Association Juried Exhibit, Strasburg, Pa. June 15-July 19.
• Honorable Mention, Art of the State Exhibition, The State Museum. Harrisburg, June 14-Sept. 14.
• Women’s Expressions Art Exhibit, Women & Babies Hospital, Lancaster, Pa, May 9-30.
• The Manipulated Image, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts. May 2-June 29.
• Photospiva 2003, April 11-May 18. George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO. Juror: Robert Parke Harrison.
• San Diego Art Institute 2003 46th Annual International Exhibition, May 3-June 15.
• Toys & Games in Art 2003-2004 Exhibit, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2003-May 2004.
• Third Place, Bethesda International Photography Competition, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD, March 14 – April 9,. Juror: Philip Brookman, Senior Curator for Photography and the Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C..
• First Place in Photography/Prints Division, Midland Arts Association and Museum of the Southwest Spring Juried Art Exhibition, Midland, Texas, March 6 – 30.
• Mute, National All-Media Juried Show, Cade Art Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD, March 5 – April 4. Juror: Richard Torchia.
• Best Out of State Artist, Arts in Harmony ‘03, Elk River Area Arts Alliance, Elk River, MN, Feb. 3–March 28.
• Honorable Mention, Woodmere Art Museum 63rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Phila., Pa, Jan. 25 – March 30.
• First Place, Cool Colors Exhibit, Lancaster County Art Assoc, Members’ Show, Strasburg, Pa. Jan. 12-Feb. 8,.
• Just Color, ArtForms Gallery, Manayunk, Pa. Jan. 30-Feb. 23.
2002
• Peninsula Fine Arts Center Photography First Place Award, Biennial 2002, September 14- November 3, 2002, Newport News, Va. Juror: Philip Pearlstein.
• Third Place, Camera Club of New York’s 2002 National Photographic Competition, October 19-November 23. Juror: W. M. Hunt, Director of Photography at the Ricco-Maresca Gallery, NYC.
• Third Place, Members Show, Lancaster County Art Association, Strasburg, Pa, September.
• First Place, PhotoSpiva 2002 National Fine Art Competition, George A. Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, May 4-June 9.
• Photowork ‘02, 15th Annual National Juried Photography Exhibition of the Barrett Art Center Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror: Barbara Head Millstein, Curator of Photography at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC.
• First Place: A Closer Look: Photography & Photorealism. Art Center School and Galleries, Mechanicsburg, PA, February.
1994-99
• Third Place Elizabethtown College Spring Arts Festival 1995. Juror: Ken Johnson, Contributing Editor to Art in America.
• Second Place Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, Photographic Visions 1999.
• Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg, Pa. 1995
• Honorable Mention, Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg, Pa , 1994
Publications
• Susquehanna Association for the Blind 2005 Calendar
• Lancaster County Magazine, March 2003, Feature Article about Virginia Caputo and the Mud Sale photographs: Muddied Memories.
• Susquehanna Style, April 2002. Parting Shot: Scenes from the Mud Sales of Lancaster County.
• Maine Antique Digest. Feature Article text & photography: Robert Kautzman, Vac Hunter, March 2001.
• Maine Antique Digest, Feature Article text & photography: A Conversation with Frank Whitson, August 1992.
Collections
Lancaster GeneralWomen & Babies' Hospital, Lancaster, PA
