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J E N N I F E R B O D I N E
Jennifer Bodine is A. Aubrey
Bodine's only child and is the custodian of his
work and legacy. Most of her time is spent
cataloguing Bodine's massive collection of
images. Her previous occupations include stained
glass artist and trial lawyer.
Jennifer and husband Richard Orban are a
team in AAubreyBodine.com, an e-commerce
business, selling A. Aubrey Bodine note cards,
reprints, and licenses.
Jennifer has a BA from the University of
Maryland, a Juris Doctor from the University of
Baltimore, an MA from Washington College, and
an MAT from Salisbury University.
She designed and built her steel home on the
bank of the Choptank River outside of Denton,
Maryland.
Jennifer has one daughter, Bodine Alexander
Boling, who lives in New York, and works in show
business. Jennifer also has three cats, Nancy,
Aldine, and Oxie.
She previously published Bodine's
Chesapeake Bay Country.
Front Cover: Construction Montage (1956).
This montage shows the construction of the
Commercial Credit Company building at St. Paul
and Saratoga Streets. Several negatives were
used to create this unique piece of art about men,
machines and material.
Back Cover: Abstraction (1956). Marble steps at
Preston Gardens. Bodine's silhouette is in shadow.
Endpapers: The Bottle (1961). High contrast
modernist image.
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B O D I N E ' S C I T Y
The Photography of A. Aubrey Bodine
Jennifer B. Bodine
A. A u b r e y B o d i n e, Hon. F.P.S.A,
F.N.P.P., was a Baltimore Sunday Sun feature
photographer for 43 years. The 154 images
displayed here were shot within a four mile radius
of where he lived or worked. The subject matter
of these powerful images is exclusively Baltimore,
and yet this is not a Baltimore picture book. The
reason these photos transcend their geographical
bounds is that Bodine's subject matter varied
wildly, demonstrating the versatility of Bodine as
an artist. Bodine is called a pictorialist, but he
is much more than that one defining label. He
photographed people, animals, buildings, harsh
weather conditions, textures, geometric patterns,
and cityscapes, devoting his life to elevating
photography to an art form. He was famous for
his dark room magic. Changes to any photograph
occurred in the darkroom and they were all done
by hand. Open these pages and enter into the
magic that is Bodine's photography.
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