Ortner biography
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Sherry Ortner
American anthropologist
Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, ) is an American cultural anthropologist and has been a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA since
Biography
[edit]Ortner grew up in a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Weequahic High School, as did Philip Roth and Richie Roberts.[1][2] She received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in She then studied anthropology at the University of Chicago with Clifford Geertz and obtained her Ph.D. in anthropology in for her fieldwork among the Sherpas in Nepal.[3] She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. She has done extensive fieldwork with the Sherpas of Nepal, on religion, politics, and the Sherpas' involvement in Himalayan mountaineering. Her final book on the Sherpas, Life and Death on Mt. Everest, was awarded t
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Ran Ortner was born in in San Francisco and raised in rural Alaska. His first career was as a professional motorcycle racer. He continues to ride and remains an avid surfer.
In , Ortner moved to Brooklyn and spent two decades working in solitude. Over time Ortner’s work became reductive, eventually distilling into a minimalist language. It was in this period of engagement with minimalism that Ortner discovered recurring motifs that evoked both the expansive feeling of the ocean and visceral body memories from decades of surfing.
In Ortner began to confront his life long intoxication with the ocean. Influenced bygd the emotional complexity of great old master paintings, Ortner began to explore a particular kind of intensity realized through the layering of oil paint. Through this process Ortner holds both the muscular immediacy and the delicacy he experiences in the ocean.
In Ortner won the inaugural ArtPrize competition. The win was covered bygd The New York T
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Jon Ortner
American photographer (born )
Jon Ortner (born Jonathan Ortner; in Great Neck, Long Island, New York) is an American photographer known for his work in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, Bhutan, and Ladakh. He has photographed and written extensively about southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Bali, Java, and India. He has most recently photographed in the deserts and canyons of the American West. These photos have been collected in Canyon Wilderness of the Southwest.
Ortner attended University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, where he studied Photography, Eastern Philosophy, and Systematics and Ecology. At the age of 20 he made his first journey to India and Nepal where experiences in the Himalaya focused the direction of his photography. In , Ortner moved to Manhattan with his wife Martha McGuire where they opened a commercial studio. His assignment photography has been used in advertising and promotion for corporations and real estate deve